The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 25
Someone must have stolen my good wine and put all this rubbish in its place.’
Who acts: Someone · What happens: steal, put · To what, where: good wine, rubbish, place
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Someone), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 stolen | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stolen | aux |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wine | nmod:poss |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wine | amod |
| 7 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stolen | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 rubbish | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 rubbish | det |
| 12 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | must · perfect | Someone | my good wine | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Someone not said here | all rubbish | rubbish's place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme in place=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 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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