The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 4
The poor man screamed terribly, and the colonel and his officers were much distressed, especially when they saw me take out my penknife.
Who acts: poor man, officers, me · What happens: scream, distress, see, take out · To what, where: colonel, me, penknife
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, officers, me), 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 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 distressed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 distressed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 colonel | det |
| 9 | colonel | colonel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 distressed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 officers | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 officers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 colonel | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 distressed | aux:pass |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 distressed | advmod |
| 15 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 screamed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 17 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 20 saw | advmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 take | compound:prt |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 penknife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | penknife | penknife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | the poor man | terribly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | distress | past · passive | the colonel and colonel's officers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | past | officers = officer | me | especially property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take out | infinitive | me not said here | my penknife | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penknife=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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