The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 147
How, in another place, great rejoicings were going on, while in a third people were dying of famine.
Who acts: great rejoicings, third people · What happens: go on, die
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great rejoicings, third people), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 How | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rejoicings | amod |
| 8 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 place | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 going | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dying | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 dying | mark |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 dying | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dying | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dying | aux |
| 19 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 going | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 famine | case |
| 21 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · progressive | great rejoicings | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | past · progressive | a third people | of famine | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of famine=Causer |
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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