The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 131
They took each other’s hands and wandered out of the great palace; they talked about the grandmother and the roses on the leads, wherever they came the winds hushed and the sun came out.
Who acts: ice, winds, sun · What happens: take, wander, talk, come, hush, come out · To what, where: hands, great palace, leads
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 (ice, winds, sun), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 other | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 other | case |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wandered | cc |
| 8 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 palace | amod |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wandered | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 talked | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 talked | nsubj |
| 16 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 grandmother | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grandmother | det |
| 19 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talked | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 roses | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 roses | det |
| 22 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grandmother | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 leads | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 leads | det |
| 25 | leads | lead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 talked | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 27 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 came | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 talked | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 winds | det |
| 31 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hushed | nsubj |
| 32 | hushed | hush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | advcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sun | det |
| 35 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADV | _ | 36 came | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | ice | each other's hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | ice not said here | the great palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | ice | the leads | about the grandmother and the roses | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about grandmother=Topic | |||
| 4 | come | past | ice | wherever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hush | past | the winds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | come out | past | the sun | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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