The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 41
So one moonlight night they stole away, and ventured out into an unknown world.
Who acts: matters · What happens: steal away, venture out · To what, where: unknown world
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: who acts (matters), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 stole | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 night | nummod |
| 3 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | compound |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 stole | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ventured | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ventured | cc |
| 10 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stole | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ventured | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ventured | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal away | past | matters = matter | night | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | venture out | past | matters = matter not said here | a unknown world | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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 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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