The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 12
On top of all they placed a ball of snow, out of which the head was to be.
Who acts: Ivan, head · What happens: place, be · To what, where: ball, top
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, head), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 top | case |
| 2 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 top | nmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 placed | nsubj |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 snow | case |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ball | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 be | punct |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 be | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 be | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 be | mark |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 placed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Ivan | a ball of snow | top of all | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on top=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the head | be property | tree rules |
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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