The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 26
He was very careful not to leave enough space for the dragon to jump out, but unluckily there was just room for his great mouth, and with one snap the king vanished down his wide red jaws.
Who acts: king, room · What happens: be, not leave, jump out, vanish down · To what, where: enough space, wide red jaws
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, room), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 careful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 careful | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 careful | advmod |
| 4 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 leave | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 careful | parataxis |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 space | amod |
| 9 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 dragon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 jump | mark |
| 14 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 jump | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 was | cc |
| 18 | unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 20 was | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 careful | parataxis |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 room | advmod |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | nsubj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 mouth | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mouth | amod |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 room | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 vanished | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 vanished | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 snap | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 snap | nummod |
| 31 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 vanished | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 vanished | nsubj |
| 34 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 careful | parataxis |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 vanished | compound:prt |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 jaws | amod |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 jaws | amod |
| 39 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 vanished | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not leave | to-infinitive | enough space | for the dragon | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent space=Theme for dragon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | jump out | to-infinitive | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | room for king's great mouth | there | unluckily property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | vanish down | past | the king | king's wide red jaws | with one snap | 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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