The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 12
And very soon a window was pushed up, and a woman’s head was thrust out of it.
What happens: push up, be · To what, where: window, head thrust
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pushed | cc |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 pushed | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pushed | aux:pass |
| 7 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 pushed | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thrust | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thrust | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrust | compound |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thrust | cop |
| 16 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushed | obl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thrust | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push up | past · passive | a window | soon property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | head thrust | window | 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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