The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 58
It was a lucky thing that Hans had his walking-stick with him that day, and had just time to catch hold of it when he felt Old Eric’s claws in his neck, so when they got down to the bottom he said, ‘Stop now, just wait a little; here is solid ground.’
Who acts: bottom, Hans, claws, solid ground · What happens: be, have, catch, feel, get down, say · To what, where: lucky thing, hold, Old claws, neck, bottom, little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom, Hans, claws, solid ground), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | obj |
| 7 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stick | nmod:poss |
| 10 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stick | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 walking | punct |
| 12 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stick | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | parataxis |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 time | advmod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 catch | mark |
| 23 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 time | acl |
| 24 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 catch | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hold | nmod |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 felt | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 felt | nsubj |
| 29 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | advcl |
| 30 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 claws | amod |
| 31 | Eric | Eric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 claws | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Eric | case |
| 33 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 felt | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 neck | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 neck | nmod:poss |
| 36 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 felt | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 got | punct |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 got | advmod |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 got | advmod |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 got | nsubj |
| 41 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | conj |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 41 got | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 bottom | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 bottom | det |
| 45 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 got | obl |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 said | nsubj |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Stop | punct |
| 49 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 Stop | punct |
| 50 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 said | ccomp |
| 51 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 Stop | advmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 wait | punct |
| 53 | just | just | ADV | _ | 54 wait | advmod |
| 54 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 Stop | conj |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 little | det |
| 56 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 wait | obj |
| 57 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 here | punct |
| 58 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thing | parataxis |
| 59 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 here | cop |
| 60 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 ground | amod |
| 61 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 here | nsubj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 63 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bottom | a lucky thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Hans | a lucky thing | day | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | catch | to-infinitive | hold of bottom | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feel | past | Hans | Eric's Old claws | Hans's neck | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent claw=Theme in neck=Location | |||
| 6 | get down | past | claws = claw | to the bottom result; down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | the bottom not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | stop | infinitive | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | wait | infinitive | a little | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | is | present | solid ground | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | hold | bottom | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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