The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 73
The tree quivered in all its branches so much, that one of the candles caught the green, and singed it.
Who acts: tree · What happens: quiver, catch, singe · To what, where: tree, branches, one, glitter
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 (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 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | quivered | quiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tree | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 branches | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 branches | det:predet |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 branches | nmod:poss |
| 7 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 quivered | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 quivered | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 one | mark |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 caught | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 candles | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 candles | det |
| 15 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caught | obl |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 green | det |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 caught | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 singed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 singed | cc |
| 21 | singed | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caught | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 singed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quiver | participle | the tree not said here | glitter's branches | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | the tree | one | of the candles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent green=Theme | |||
| 3 | singe | past | the tree not said here | glitter | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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