The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 93
As he stretched out his hand up started the wasp and stung him on the nose.
Who acts: Monkey · What happens: stretch out, start, sting · To what, where: hand, wasp, Monkey
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 (Monkey), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stretched | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 started | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wasp | det |
| 10 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stung | cc |
| 12 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 started | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stung | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 nose | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nose | det |
| 16 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stung | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Monkey | Monkey's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | start | past | the wasp | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wasp=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sting | past | Monkey | on the nose | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer on nose=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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