The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 82
And the tapers burnt low on the branches, and were put out one by one, and then the children were given permission to plunder the tree.
Who acts: tapers · What happens: burnt, put out, give, plunder · To what, where: branches, one, children, tree
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 (tapers), 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 | _ | 4 burnt | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tapers | det |
| 3 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burnt | nsubj |
| 4 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 burnt | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 branches | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 branches | det |
| 8 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burnt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux:pass |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 burnt | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 given | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 given | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 children | det |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 put | conj |
| 24 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 plunder | mark |
| 26 | plunder | plunder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 permission | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plunder | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | present | the tapers | the branches | low property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put out | past · passive | the tapers not said here | one | by one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: one=Theme by one=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | past · passive | the children | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient permission=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plunder | to-infinitive | the tree | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Source |
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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