The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 2
When it had all fallen, and the sun was shining again, the children ran out into the street to play, and the old man and his wife sat at their window and gazed at them.
Who acts: living, sun, children, old man · What happens: have, fall, shine, run out, play, sit · To what, where: all, street, window
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 (living, sun, children, old man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ran | advcl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 all | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shining | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shining | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shining | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shining | aux |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 shining | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 street | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 street | det |
| 20 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 play | mark |
| 22 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ran | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sat | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sat | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wife | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 man | conj |
| 31 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ran | parataxis |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 window | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 window | nmod:poss |
| 34 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sat | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gazed | cc |
| 36 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sat | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gazed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | living | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | again | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run out | past | the children | into the street result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into street=Result | ||||
| 5 | play | to-infinitive | the children not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sit | past | the old man and man's wife | children's window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 7 | gaze | past | the old man and man's wife not said here | at children = child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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