The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 43
The clatter it made upon the floor attracted the Princess Cabbage-Stalk’s attention.
Who acts: clatter, Princess · What happens: make, attract, attention · To what, where: clatter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clatter, Princess), 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 clatter | det |
| 2 | clatter | clatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attracted | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clatter | acl:relcl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 8 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 attention | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 attention | nsubj |
| 11 | Cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attention | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cabbage | punct |
| 13 | Stalk | Stalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 attention | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Stalk | case |
| 15 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attracted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | clatter | the clatter not said here | upon the floor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material clatter=Product | |||
| 2 | attract | past | the clatter | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | attention | Princess | tree rules |
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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