The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 119
Suddenly he sprang to his feet, for he remembered the ointment which lay hidden in his garments, and he rushed to the place where his brother still lay.
Who acts: man, ointment, brother · What happens: spring, remember, lie, hide, rush, lay · To what, where: feet, ointment, garments
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ointment, brother), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sprang | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remembered | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 remembered | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remembered | nsubj |
| 10 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ointment | det |
| 12 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remembered | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ointment | acl:relcl |
| 15 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lay | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 garments | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 garments | nmod:poss |
| 18 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hidden | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rushed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rushed | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rushed | nsubj |
| 22 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remembered | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rushed | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 lay | advmod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lay | nsubj |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 lay | advmod |
| 30 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 place | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | man | man's feet | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | remember | past | man | the ointment | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the ointment | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hide | participle | the ointment not said here | man's garments | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garment=Location | ||||
| 5 | rush | past | man | to the place result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | ||||
| 6 | lay | present | man's brother | still | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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