The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 17
Two holes were left for the eyes, and Ivan carefully shaped out the mouth.
What happens: leave, shape out · To what, where: Two holes, Ivan
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: 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 holes | nummod |
| 2 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shaped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shaped | cc |
| 10 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shaped | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 shaped | advmod |
| 12 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 shaped | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouth | det |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shaped | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Two holes | for the eyes | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for eye=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shape out | participle · passive | Ivan | carefully property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mouth=Product |
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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