The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 43
The wanderers by this time were very hot and tired, and the grass looked very soft and inviting, and the trees cast cool deep shadows, when suddenly an ogre appeared in this Paradise, in the shape of a big, big dog!
Who acts: wanderers, grass, trees, ogre · What happens: be, look, invite, cast, appear · To what, where: cool deep shadows, Paradise
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 (wanderers, grass, trees, ogre), 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 wanderers | det |
| 2 | wanderers | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanderers | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hot | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 hot | advmod |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tired | cc |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hot | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hot | parataxis |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 soft | advmod |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looked | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inviting | cc |
| 19 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 soft | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cast | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cast | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cast | nsubj |
| 24 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | conj |
| 25 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shadows | amod |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shadows | amod |
| 27 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cast | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 appeared | punct |
| 29 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 appeared | mark |
| 30 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 32 ogre | advmod |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 ogre | det |
| 32 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 appeared | nsubj |
| 33 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shadows | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Paradise | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 Paradise | det |
| 36 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 appeared | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 shape | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 shape | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 shape | det |
| 40 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 appeared | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 dog | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 dog | det |
| 43 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 dog | amod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 big | punct |
| 45 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 dog | amod |
| 46 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 shape | nmod |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wanderers by this time | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the wanderers by this time not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | past | the grass | soft property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | invite | gerund | the grass not said here | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cast | present | the trees | cool deep shadows | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product | ||||
| 6 | appear | past | a ogre | this Paradise | in the shape of a big big dog | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in paradise=Location |
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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