The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 37
It was a leaf torn out of an old book--a book of poetry
Who acts: cheese, leaf · What happens: be, tear out · To what, where: leaf, old book
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 (cheese, leaf), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leaf | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaf | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 leaf | acl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 book | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 book | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 book | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 book | amod |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 torn | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 book | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 poetry | case |
| 15 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 book | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cheese | a leaf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear out | participle | a leaf not said here | a old book | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location book=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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