The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 60
Out of the book shot a streak of light which grew into a large tree and spread its branches far above the student.
Who acts: streak · What happens: shoot, grow, spread · To what, where: book, large tree, branches
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 (streak), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 book | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 book | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | obl |
| 5 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 streak | det |
| 7 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 streak | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shot | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tree | amod |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spread | cc |
| 17 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 branches | nmod:poss |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spread | obj |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 spread | advmod |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 student | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 student | det |
| 23 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 far | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the book | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent out book=Destination | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | a streak of light | into a large tree result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | a streak of light not said here | book's branches | far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=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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