The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 102
My little girl was carried about again, but had the ill-luck to fall and get her eye knocked out.
Who acts: ill luck, eye · What happens: carry, have, fall, get, knock out · To what, where: little girl, ill luck, eye
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ill luck, eye), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 girl | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 again | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 luck | det |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 luck | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ill | punct |
| 14 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fall | mark |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fall | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eye | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 get | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 knocked | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | My little girl | again | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the ill luck | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | to-infinitive | the ill luck not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | the ill luck not said here | girl's eye | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | knock out | participle | girl's eye not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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