The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 12
So the young man stood carefully on one side, and by-and-bye he heard a great rushing in the water; and a horrible monster came up to the surface and looked out for the rock where the king’s daughter was chained, for it was getting late and he was hungry.
Who acts: young man, man, horrible monster, rock · What happens: stand, hear, rush, come up, look out, chain · To what, where: one side, water, surface, daughter
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 (young man, man, horrible monster, rock), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 side | nummod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bye | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bye | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bye | cc |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 great | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heard | xcomp |
| 21 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 great | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rushing | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 monster | det |
| 28 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 monster | amod |
| 29 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 31 | up | up | ADV | _ | 30 came | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 surface | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 surface | det |
| 34 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 looked | cc |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 came | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 looked | compound:prt |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 rock | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 rock | det |
| 40 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looked | obl |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 chained | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 king | det |
| 43 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 king | case |
| 45 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 chained | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 chained | aux:pass |
| 47 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 rock | acl:relcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 getting | punct |
| 49 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 52 getting | mark |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 getting | nsubj |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 getting | aux |
| 52 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 looked | advcl |
| 53 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 52 getting | advmod |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 hungry | cc |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 hungry | nsubj |
| 56 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 hungry | cop |
| 57 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 came | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the young man | one side | carefully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | past | man | by bye; great property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | rush | gerund | man not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | come up | past | a horrible monster | the surface | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | look out | past | a horrible monster not said here | for the rock | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for rock=Theme | ||||
| 6 | chain | past · passive | the king's daughter | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | get | past · progressive | rock | late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | is | past | man | hungry 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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