The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 104
Out crept the young man from under the bed, and the girl took the magic wand (which she found where the old man had told her), and, touching the twelve grey stones, transformed them at once into the six brothers and their brides.
Who acts: girl, magic wand, touching · What happens: creep, take, find, tell, touch, transform · To what, where: young man, bed, magic wand, old man, girl, twelve grey stones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, magic wand, touching), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 2 crept | advmod |
| 2 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crept | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bed | det |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crept | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wand | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wand | amod |
| 17 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 found | nsubj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wand | acl:relcl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 told | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 told | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 told | aux |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 found | ccomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | iobj |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 told | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 transformed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 transformed | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 touching | punct |
| 33 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 transformed | csubj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 stones | det |
| 35 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 stones | nummod |
| 36 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 stones | amod |
| 37 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 touching | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 transformed | punct |
| 39 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 transformed | obj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 once | case |
| 42 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 39 transformed | obl |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 brothers | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 brothers | det |
| 45 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 brothers | nummod |
| 46 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 transformed | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 brides | cc |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 brides | nmod:poss |
| 49 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 brothers | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the young man | the bed | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location man=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | the girl | the magic wand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | the magic wand | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the old man | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic | ||||
| 5 | touch | gerund | the twelve grey stones | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Co-Theme | |||||
| 6 | transform | past | touching | stones = stone | into the six brothers and stones's brides result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into brother=Result |
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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