The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 37
The very spits at the fire, as full as they could hold of partridges and pheasants, did fall asleep also.
Who acts: horses · What happens: spit, hold, fall · To what, where: fire
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spits | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 spits | advmod |
| 3 | spits | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spits | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 full | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 full | case |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spits | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 hold | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hold | aux |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 full | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 partridges | case |
| 15 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hold | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pheasants | cc |
| 17 | pheasants | pheasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 partridges | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fall | punct |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fall | aux |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hold | conj |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fall | xcomp |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 fall | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | the fire | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | could | horses = horse | of partridges and pheasants | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · do-support | horses = horse not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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