The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 53
But the witch pulled out a hair and laid it on his shoulder, and his limbs grew cold and heavy, and he could not stir.
Who acts: limbs, man · What happens: pull out, lay, grow, not stir · To what, where: witch, hall, shoulder
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 (limbs, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 pulled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hair | det |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shoulder | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grew | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | parataxis |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grew | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heavy | cc |
| 21 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cold | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stir | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stir | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stir | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 stir | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 stir | advmod |
| 27 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 grew | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | participle · passive | the witch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | hall | man's shoulder | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | man's limbs | cold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not stir | could | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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