The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 151
They cut up Kabo into little pieces.
Who acts: Pivi · What happens: cut up · To what, where: Kabo, little pieces
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 cut | compound:prt |
| 4 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pieces | case |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pieces | amod |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cut | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut up | present | Pivi | Kabo | little pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent kabo=Material into piece=Product |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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