The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 65
Then there was a great rustling in the undergrowth, and out ran a wild boar, grunting, ‘Umph, umph, umph; someone said dinner was ready.
Who acts: someone, dinner · What happens: be, grunt, say · To what, where: Umph · 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 (someone, 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 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rustling | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rustling | amod |
| 6 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 undergrowth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 undergrowth | det |
| 9 | undergrowth | undergrowth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rustling | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boar | det |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boar | amod |
| 16 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grunting | punct |
| 18 | grunting | grunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ran | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Umph | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Umph | punct |
| 21 | Umph | Umph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 grunting | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 umph | punct |
| 23 | umph | umph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Umph | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 umph | punct |
| 25 | umph | umph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Umph | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 29 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ready | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 ready | cop |
| 31 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 said | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | out, run property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grunt | gerund | Umph and umph and umph | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent umph=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | dinner | ready property | tree rules |
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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