The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 117
So she learnt by this how the evil spell might be broken, and she carefully sprinkled every stone till there was not one left--only a great company of youths and girls who followed her down the mountain.
Who acts: girl, one, great company · What happens: learn, break, sprinkle, be, leave, follow down · To what, where: evil spell, stone, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, one, great company), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 learnt | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learnt | nsubj |
| 3 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 learnt | obl |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 broken | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spell | det |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spell | amod |
| 9 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 broken | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 broken | aux:pass |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 learnt | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sprinkled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sprinkled | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 16 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 17 sprinkled | advmod |
| 17 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learnt | parataxis |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 stone | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sprinkled | obj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 was | mark |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sprinkled | advcl |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 one | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 left | nsubj |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 was | ccomp |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 company | punct |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 company | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 company | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 company | amod |
| 30 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learnt | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 youths | case |
| 32 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 company | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 girls | cc |
| 34 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 youths | conj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 followed | nsubj |
| 36 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 company | acl:relcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 followed | obj |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 followed | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 mountain | det |
| 40 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 followed | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | girl | by this | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | break | might · passive | the evil spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | sprinkle | past | girl | every stone | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 4 | be | past | girl not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | participle | one | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | follow down | past | a great company of youths and girls | girl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme mountain=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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