The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 48
Then she ate a very good dinner, which was on a shelf in the corner, and once more clambered up to the top of her tree.
Who acts: path, good dinner · What happens: eat, be, clamber up · To what, where: good dinner, shelf, top
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 (path, good dinner), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ate | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dinner | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dinner | amod |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shelf | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 shelf | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shelf | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shelf | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shelf | det |
| 13 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dinner | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shelf | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clambered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 clambered | cc |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 clambered | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 clambered | advmod |
| 21 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ate | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 clambered | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 top | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 top | det |
| 25 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clambered | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 tree | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 top | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | path | a good dinner | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | a good dinner | a shelf | in the corner | tree rules | |||
| 3 | clamber up | participle | path not said here | the top of path's tree | once property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=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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