The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 8
And he took it from his head and set it on top of all, and at last the scale moved and the ball had founds its balance.
Who acts: thing, last, ball, crown · What happens: take, set, move, have, balance · To what, where: crown, head, top, founds
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, last, ball, crown), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 top | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 moved | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 moved | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 moved | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scale | det |
| 20 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 last | nsubj |
| 21 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ball | det |
| 24 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 moved | conj |
| 26 | founds | found | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 had | obj |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 balance | nmod:poss |
| 28 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 founds | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | thing | crown | thing's head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from head=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | thing not said here | crown | top of all | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on top=Destination | |||
| 3 | move | past | last | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the ball | founds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent found=Patient | ||||
| 5 | balance | crown | nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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