The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 50
Then he opened the shells with a pin, split them carefully in two, and broke small little bits of sticks for the rowers’ seats.
Who acts: Lasse · What happens: open, split, break · To what, where: shells, two, small little bits
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shells | det |
| 5 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pin | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pin | det |
| 8 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 split | punct |
| 10 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opened | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 split | obj |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 split | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 two | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 split | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broke | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broke | cc |
| 17 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bits | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bits | amod |
| 20 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 broke | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sticks | case |
| 22 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bits | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 seats | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rowers | det |
| 25 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 seats | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 25 rowers | case |
| 27 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 broke | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Lasse | the shells | then | with a pin | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shell=Patient with pin=Instrument | ||
| 2 | split | infinitive | Lasse not said here | shells = shell | two | carefully property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 3 | break | past | Lasse not said here | small little bits of sticks | for the rowers's seats | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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