The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 26
How the Dragon was Tricked The Goblin and the Grocer The House in the Wood Uraschimataro and the Turtle The Slaying of the Tanuki The Flying Trunk The Snow Man.
What happens: trick, slay · To what, where: Dragon, Wood Uraschimataro, Tanuki
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 Tricked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dragon | det |
| 3 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tricked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Tricked | aux:pass |
| 5 | Tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Goblin | det |
| 7 | Goblin | Goblin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tricked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Grocer | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Grocer | det |
| 10 | Grocer | Grocer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Goblin | conj |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 House | det |
| 12 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Grocer | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Uraschimataro | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Uraschimataro | det |
| 15 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Uraschimataro | compound |
| 16 | Uraschimataro | Uraschimataro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tricked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Turtle | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Turtle | det |
| 19 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Uraschimataro | conj |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Slaying | det |
| 21 | Slaying | slaying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tricked | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Tanuki | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tanuki | det |
| 24 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Slaying | nmod |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Trunk | det |
| 26 | Flying | Fly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Trunk | compound |
| 27 | Trunk | Trunk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tanuki | appos |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Man | det |
| 29 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Man | compound |
| 30 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tanuki | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | past · passive | the Dragon | the Wood Uraschimataro and the Turtle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay | the Tanuki | nom slaying «act transitive»: of=patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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