The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 47
Niels tore this in two, and put one half in his pocket, leaving the other half on the table.
Who acts: Niels · What happens: tore, put, leave · To what, where: this, two, one half, pocket, other half, table
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tore | nsubj |
| 2 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tore | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 two | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 tore | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tore | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 half | nummod |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pocket | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl | ||
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 put | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 half | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 half | amod |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 leaving | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 table | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 table | det |
| 21 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | past | Niels | this | two | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Niels not said here | one half | Niels's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | Niels not said here | the other half | the table | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent half=Theme on table=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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