The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 52
The axe went deep into the pith; the tree fell to the ground with a groan; it felt bruised and faint.
Who acts: axe, tree · What happens: go, fall, feel, bruise · To what, where: pith
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 (axe, tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 axe | det |
| 2 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pith | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pith | det |
| 7 | pith | pith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 groan | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 groan | det |
| 17 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 felt | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 faint | cc |
| 23 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bruised | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the axe | the pith | deep property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pith=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the tree | to the ground; with a groan | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | axe | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bruise | participle | axe not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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