The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 52
And she blew in at one end, and blew little Pivi out at the other, like a pea from a pea-shooter.
Who acts: woman · What happens: blow in, blow out · To what, where: one end, little Pivi, other
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 (woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 blew | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 blew | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 end | nummod |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Pivi | amod |
| 12 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 blew | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pea | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 pea | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pea | det |
| 20 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 shooter | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shooter | det |
| 23 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shooter | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 pea | punct |
| 25 | shooter | shooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pea | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in | past | woman | at one end | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | blow out | past | woman not said here | little Pivi | the other | like a pea from a pea shooter | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pivi=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 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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