The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 79
There he stood out on the cold landing, the autumn wind blowing through the cracks of the floor.
Who acts: light, autumn wind · What happens: stand out, blow · To what, where: cold landing, cracks
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 (light, autumn wind), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 landing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 landing | det |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 landing | amod |
| 8 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wind | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 11 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wind | compound |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 landing | conj |
| 13 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 wind | acl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 cracks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cracks | det |
| 16 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 blowing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cracks | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand out | past | light | the cold landing and the autumn wind; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on landing=Location | ||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | the autumn wind not said here | the cracks of the floor | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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