The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 55
The very first day she shut the kitchen door in the face of the tom-cats who used to enjoy watching Lizina at her work, and a young and mischievous cat who jumped in by the open kitchen window and alighted on the table got such a blow with the rolling-pin that he squalled for an hour.
Who acts: Peppina, tom cats, young cat, face · What happens: shut, use, enjoy, watch, jump in, alight · To what, where: kitchen door, face, Lizina, work, table, blow
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 (Peppina, tom cats, young cat, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 first | advmod |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shut | nsubj |
| 6 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | compound |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cats | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cats | det |
| 15 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cats | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tom | punct |
| 17 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 face | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 used | nsubj |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cats | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 enjoy | mark |
| 21 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 used | xcomp |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 enjoy | xcomp |
| 23 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 watching | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 work | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 work | nmod:poss |
| 26 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 watching | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 got | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 got | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cat | det |
| 30 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cat | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 mischievous | cc |
| 32 | mischievous | mischievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 young | conj |
| 33 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 got | nsubj |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 jumped | nsubj |
| 35 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 cat | acl:relcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 jumped | compound:prt |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 window | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 window | det |
| 39 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 window | amod |
| 40 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 window | compound |
| 41 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 jumped | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 alighted | cc |
| 43 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 jumped | conj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 table | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 table | det |
| 46 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 alighted | obl |
| 47 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shut | conj |
| 48 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 50 blow | det:predet |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 blow | det |
| 50 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 got | obj |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 pin | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 pin | det |
| 53 | rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 pin | compound |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 rolling | punct |
| 55 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 got | obl |
| 56 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 squalled | obj |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 squalled | nsubj |
| 58 | squalled | squall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 pin | acl:relcl |
| 59 | for | for | ADP | _ | 61 hour | case |
| 60 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 hour | det |
| 61 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 squalled | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | Peppina | the kitchen door | the face of the tom cats | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||
| 2 | use | past | the tom cats | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | the tom cats not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | the tom cats not said here | Lizina | Peppina's work | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizina=Theme | |||
| 5 | jump in | past | a young cat | by the open kitchen window | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by window=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | alight | participle | a young cat not said here | the table | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get | past | a young cat | such blow | with the rolling pin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | squall speech: other | past | face | the rolling pin | hour | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 9 | work | Peppina | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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