The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 75
No, as soon as the light shone in the evening from the attic it seemed to him as though its beams were strong ropes dragging him up, and he had to go and peep through the key-hole.
Who acts: it, beams, strong ropes, light, attic · What happens: shine, seem, be, drag up, have, go · To what, where: light, attic, strong ropes
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 (it, beams, strong ropes, light), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 light | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 light | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 light | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 light | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 light | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 evening | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 attic | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 attic | det |
| 14 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 attic | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seemed | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 ropes | advmod |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 ropes | mark |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beams | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ropes | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ropes | cop |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ropes | amod |
| 25 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 26 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 ropes | acl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dragging | obj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 dragging | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 had | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 light | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 had | xcomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 peep | cc |
| 36 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 go | conj |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 41 hole | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 hole | det |
| 39 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hole | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 key | punct |
| 41 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 peep | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | participle | the light not said here | the attic | evening | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | it | the attic not said here | light | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme attic=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is a | past | attic's beams | strong ropes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drag up | gerund | strong ropes not said here | light | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | light | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | light not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | peep | infinitive | light not said here | through the key hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme | ||||
| 8 | beam | attic | nom beam «communication transitive»: 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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