The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 84
The watchman was blowing his horn: a great fire had broken out; the whole town was in flames.
Who acts: watchman, whole town · What happens: blow, break out, be · To what, where: horn, great fire, flames
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 (watchman, whole town), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 watchman | det |
| 2 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blowing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blowing | aux |
| 4 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horn | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blowing | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 broken | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fire | amod |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 broken | aux |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 blowing | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 broken | compound:prt |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 flames | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 town | amod |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flames | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flames | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 flames | case |
| 20 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blowing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past · progressive | the watchman | watchman's horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break out | past · perfect · passive | a great fire | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the whole town | flames | tree rules |
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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