The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 11
The beer is running all over the cellar.’
Who acts: beer · What happens: run · To what, where: cellar
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beer), 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 | 2 beer | det |
| 2 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | aux |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 cellar | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 cellar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cellar | det |
| 8 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 running | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present · progressive | the beer | the cellar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cellar=Trajectory |
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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