The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 14
Their cook had left them that very morning, with her face all scratched, the result of such a quarrel with the head of the house that he had very nearly scratched out her eyes.
Who acts: face · What happens: leave, scratch, scratch out, result · To what, where: cook, result, eyes, quarrel
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cook | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 morning | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 morning | advmod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scratched | punct |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 scratched | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scratched | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 scratched | advmod |
| 14 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 result | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 result | det |
| 17 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scratched | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 quarrel | case |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 quarrel | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 quarrel | det |
| 21 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 result | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 head | det |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quarrel | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 head | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 scratched | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 scratched | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 scratched | aux |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 scratched | advmod |
| 32 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 33 scratched | advmod |
| 33 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 scratched | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 scratched | compound:prt |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 scratched | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Cats's cook | morning | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme they=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | scratch | past | Lizina's face | the result of such quarrel with the head of the house | all property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme | |||
| 3 | scratch out | past · perfect | face | Lizina's eyes | nearly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 4 | result | such quarrel with the head of the house | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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