The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 80
It was cold--very cold, but he first found it out when the light in the attic was put out and the music in the wood died away.
Who acts: spite, light, music · What happens: be, find out, put out, die away · To what, where: spite, light
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 (spite, light, music), 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 | 3 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cold | cop |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cold | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 found | advmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cold | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 found | compound:prt |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 put | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 attic | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 attic | det |
| 19 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | aux:pass |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 found | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 put | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 died | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 music | det |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 died | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 music | nmod |
| 29 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 died | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | spite | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | spite not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | find out | past | light | spite | first property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | put out | past · passive | the light in the attic | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 5 | die away | past | the music in the wood | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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