The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 18
She pulled out the thorn and bound up the place, and the lion was grateful, and licked her hand by way of thanks with his big rough tongue.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: pull out, bind up, be, lick · To what, where: thorn, place, hand
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 pulled | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thorn | det |
| 5 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bound | cc |
| 7 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pulled | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 bound | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bound | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grateful | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grateful | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lion | det |
| 14 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grateful | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grateful | cop |
| 16 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pulled | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 licked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 licked | cc |
| 19 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 licked | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 licked | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 thanks | case |
| 25 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | nmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 tongue | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tongue | amod |
| 29 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tongue | amod |
| 30 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thanks | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | Lion | the thorn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind up | participle | Lion not said here | the place | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the lion | grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lick | past | Lion not said here | Lion's hand | by way of thanks with groan's big rough tongue | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer by way=Theme |
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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