The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 61
On its branches they hung little nets cut out of coloured paper, each full of sugarplums; gilt apples and nuts hung down as if they were growing, over a hundred red, blue, and white tapers were fastened among the branches.
Who acts: branches, little nets · What happens: hang, cut out, hang down, grow, fasten · To what, where: little nets, branches, coloured paper, gilt apples, white tapers
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 (branches, little nets), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 branches | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 branches | nmod:poss |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hung | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hung | nsubj |
| 5 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nets | amod |
| 7 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hung | obj |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 nets | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 paper | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 paper | case |
| 11 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paper | amod |
| 12 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 full | det |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hung | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sugarplums | case |
| 17 | sugarplums | sugarplum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 apples | punct |
| 19 | gilt | gilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 apples | amod |
| 20 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hung | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nuts | cc |
| 22 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 apples | conj |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 apples | acl |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 hung | compound:prt |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 growing | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 growing | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 growing | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 growing | aux |
| 29 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 hung | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hundred | punct |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 hundred | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hundred | det |
| 33 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hung | obl |
| 34 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hundred | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 blue | punct |
| 36 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 red | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fastened | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 fastened | cc |
| 39 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tapers | amod |
| 40 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 fastened | aux:pass |
| 42 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hung | conj |
| 43 | among | among | ADP | _ | 45 branches | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 branches | det |
| 45 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 fastened | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | branches = branch | little nets | sand's branches | over a hundred; gilt apples and nuts obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme on branch=Destination | ||
| 2 | cut out | participle | little nets not said here | coloured paper | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector paper=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | hang down | participle | gilt apples and nuts not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | past · progressive | branches = branch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fasten | past · passive | white tapers | among the branches | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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