The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 104
He was pulling about some sharp, flat pieces of ice, and trying to fit one into the other.
Who acts: Kay · What happens: pull, try, fit · To what, where: one, other
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulling | aux |
| 3 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 pieces | det |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pieces | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sharp | punct |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pieces | amod |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulling | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ice | case |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trying | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trying | cc |
| 14 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pulling | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fit | mark |
| 16 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 trying | xcomp |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 fit | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past · progressive | Kay | about some sharp flat pieces of ice | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | Kay not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fit not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kay not said here | one | the other | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme into other=Destination |
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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