The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 51
And at Christmas-time it was the first to be cut down.
Who acts: wind · What happens: be, cut down
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 (wind), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 first | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Christmas | punct |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 first | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 first | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 first | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 first | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cut | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cut | aux:pass |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 first | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wind | time | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cut down | to-infinitive · passive | wind not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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