The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 17
Then they stepped into the room, and there they saw the jogi’s body lying torn to pieces on the threshold of his dwelling!
Who acts: pupils · What happens: step, see, lie, tear · To what, where: room, body, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupils), 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 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 saw | expl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jogi | det |
| 13 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 jogi | case |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lying | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 pieces | case |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 torn | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 threshold | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 threshold | det |
| 22 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pieces | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dwelling | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threshold | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | pupils = pupil | the room | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | pupils = pupil | the jogi's body | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | tear | participle | pieces on the threshold of jogi's dwelling | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Destination |
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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