The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 75
It is he now that is caught, swallowed like a letter in the post.
What happens: be, swallow · To what, where: sack
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 caught | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux:pass |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swallowed | punct |
| 9 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 caught | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 letter | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 letter | det |
| 12 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swallowed | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 post | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 post | det |
| 15 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 letter | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | sack | now | catch property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | swallow | participle | like a letter in the post | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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