The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 87
Now the room in which the dragon slept was just above the stable, and at the sound of the neighing he woke and cried to the horse, ‘What is the matter, my treasure? is anything hurting you?’
Who acts: dragon, room, neighing, my · What happens: sleep, be, neigh, wake, cry, hurt · To what, where: room, stable, horse, matter, you
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 (dragon, room, neighing, my), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stable | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stable | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 slept | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | nsubj |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 room | acl:relcl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stable | cop |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 stable | advmod |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stable | det |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sound | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sound | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 sound | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sound | det |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stable | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 anything | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 anything | det |
| 21 | neighing | neigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 anything | csubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 woke | nsubj |
| 23 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 neighing | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cried | cc |
| 25 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 woke | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cried | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 matter | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 matter | punct |
| 31 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 matter | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 matter | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 matter | det |
| 34 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cried | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 treasure | punct |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 37 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 matter | appos |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 37 treasure | punct |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 anything | cop |
| 40 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 sound | nmod |
| 41 | hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 anything | acl |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 hurting | obj |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 stable | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 stable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the dragon | the room | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the room | the stable and the sound | now | tree rules | |||
| 3 | neigh | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wake | past | Dragon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | Dragon not said here | the horse | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to horse=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is | present | neighing | of anything | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | hurt | gerund | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | |||||
| 9 | treasure | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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