The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 40
But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something happened which put the pigs quite out of her head.
Who acts: something · What happens: seat, happen, put · To what, where: Lion, highest branch, pigs, head
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 (something), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 seated | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 seated | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seated | nsubj |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 branch | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 9 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 branch | amod |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 happened | mark |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | advcl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pigs | det |
| 17 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 put | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | Lion | the highest branch | soon property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||
| 2 | happen | past | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | the pigs | Lion's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme out head=Destination |
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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