The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 47
Taking a hammer he broke away a bit of the stone, and found behind it a little golden key.
Who acts: noise · What happens: take, break away, find · To what, where: hammer, bit, little golden key, stone
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (noise), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 broke | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hammer | det |
| 3 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 broke | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stone | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 broke | parataxis |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 key | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 key | amod |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 key | amod |
| 20 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a hammer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break away | past | noise | a bit of the stone | away property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | find | participle | a little golden key | stone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Topic |
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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