The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 91
But in a moment the egg had burst into a thousand pieces, and its sharp shell struck him in the face and scratched him horribly.
Who acts: sharp shell · What happens: burst, strike, scratch · To what, where: egg, thousand pieces, Monkey, face
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sharp shell), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 burst | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 egg | det |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | aux |
| 8 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thousand | det |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pieces | nummod |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burst | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 struck | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 struck | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shell | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shell | amod |
| 17 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 struck | nsubj |
| 18 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 struck | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 face | det |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 struck | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 scratched | cc |
| 24 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 struck | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 scratched | obj |
| 26 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 24 scratched | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past · perfect · passive | the egg | thousand pieces | moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | strike | past | fire's sharp shell | Monkey | the face | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | |||
| 3 | scratch | past | fire's sharp shell not said here | Monkey | horribly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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