The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 108
Just as she was pulling the knot tight there was a crack, and the thread broke, for it was rotten.
Who acts: witch, thread · What happens: pull, be · To what, where: knot
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, thread), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 pulling | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 pulling | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pulling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulling | aux |
| 5 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 was | csubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knot | det |
| 7 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulling | obj |
| 8 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 5 pulling | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broke | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crack | det |
| 12 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broke | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thread | det |
| 16 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broke | nsubj |
| 17 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rotten | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 rotten | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rotten | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rotten | cop |
| 22 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 broke | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past · progressive | witch | the knot | tight property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the thread | break property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | thread | rotten property | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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