The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 74
It was one of them whom you threw out of your window yesterday.
Who acts: ring, you · What happens: be, throw · To what, where: one, window
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 threw | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 window | nmod:poss |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ring | one | of words = word | tree rules | |||
| 2 | throw | past | you | your window | yesterday | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent whom=Theme out window=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 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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