The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 5

‘Look what was left on the ugly old fir-tree!’ he cried, and stamped on the boughs so that they cracked under his feet.

Who acts: Christmas, children · What happens: look, leave, cry, stamp, crack · To what, where: ugly old fir tree, boughs, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Christmas, children), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	ccomp
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Look	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	12 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
10	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fir	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stamped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stamped	cc
19	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cried	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 boughs	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boughs	det
22	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stamped	obl
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 cracked	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cracked	nsubj
26	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stamped	advcl
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 feet	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 feet	nmod:poss
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cracked	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	look	infinitive			tree rules
2	leave	past · passive		the ugly old fir tree	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on tree=Location
3	cry speech: express	past	Christmas		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stamp	participle	Christmas not said here	the boughs	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bough=Destination
5	crack	past	children = child	Christmas's feet	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location

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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