The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 160
Well, it was one morning when they came to tidy up the lumber-room; they threw it really rather roughly on the floor, but a servant dragged it off at once downstairs, where there was daylight once more.
Who acts: tallow, spirits, servant, daylight · What happens: be, come, tidy up, throw, drag off · To what, where: one morning, lumber room, room, floor
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tallow, spirits, servant, daylight), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 morning | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 morning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 morning | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 morning | nummod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tidy | mark |
| 11 | tidy | tidy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 tidy | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 14 | lumber | lumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 room | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 lumber | punct |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tidy | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 threw | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 threw | nsubj |
| 19 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 threw | obj |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 rather | advmod |
| 22 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 23 roughly | advmod |
| 23 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 19 threw | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 floor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 floor | det |
| 26 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 threw | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dragged | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 dragged | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 servant | det |
| 30 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dragged | nsubj |
| 31 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dragged | obj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 dragged | compound:prt |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 once | case |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 dragged | obl |
| 36 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 31 dragged | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 was | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 was | advmod |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 was | expl |
| 40 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 dragged | conj |
| 41 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 was | nsubj |
| 42 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 43 more | advmod |
| 43 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 was | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tallow | one morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | spirits = spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tidy up | to-infinitive | spirits = spirit not said here | the lumber room | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | spirits = spirit | room | the floor | roughly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on floor=Destination | ||
| 5 | drag off | past | a servant | room | downstairs property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | be | past | daylight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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