The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 17
As soon as he had reached the middle of the lake, Pinkel took the wool out of the bells, which began to tinkle loudly.
Who acts: snoring, Pinkel, bells · What happens: reach, take, begin, tinkle · To what, where: middle, wool, bells
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snoring, Pinkel, bells), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 took | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | aux |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 took | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
| 13 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wool | det |
| 16 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 bells | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bells | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bells | det |
| 20 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 began | nsubj |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bells | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 tinkle | mark |
| 25 | tinkle | tinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 25 tinkle | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | snoring | the middle of the lake | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Pinkel | the wool | the bells | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wool=Theme out bell=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | begin | past | the bells | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | tinkle | to-infinitive | the bells not said here | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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