The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 41
The hawk now turned into a man, and offered the girl a great sum of money for the gold ring, but she would not part with it, seeing that it had fallen down to her, as it were, from Heaven.
Who acts: hawk, ring · What happens: turn, offer, not part, see, fall down, be · To what, where: great sum, girl, hawk, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hawk, ring), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hawk | det |
| 2 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offered | cc |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sum | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sum | amod |
| 15 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 money | case |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sum | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 ring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ring | det |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ring | compound |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 part | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 part | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 part | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 part | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 part | advmod |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | parataxis |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 part | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seeing | punct |
| 31 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 turned | advcl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 fallen | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fallen | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 fallen | aux |
| 35 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 seeing | ccomp |
| 36 | down | down | ADV | _ | 35 fallen | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fallen | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Heaven | punct |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 Heaven | case |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 Heaven | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 Heaven | cop |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Heaven | punct |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 Heaven | case |
| 45 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 seeing | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the hawk | now | into a man result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into man=Result | |||
| 2 | offer | past | the hawk not said here | a great sum of money | the girl | for the gold ring | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent girl=Goal sum=Theme | ||
| 3 | not part | would | hawk | with ring | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | the hawk not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | fall down | past · perfect | ring | hawk | down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot | |||
| 6 | is | past | ring | as Heaven | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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