The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 4
One of the little ones ran up, and tore off the gold star.
Who acts: little ones · What happens: run up · To what, where: One
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little ones), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ran | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ones | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ones | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 ran | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tore | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tore | cc |
| 10 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 star | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 star | det |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 star | compound |
| 14 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tore | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | the little ones | One | tore off the gold star obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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