The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 61
The lace was torn, the satin stained, the pearls knocked off!
Who acts: satin, pearls · What happens: tear, stain, knock off · To what, where: lace
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (satin, pearls), 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 lace | det |
| 2 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 torn | aux:pass |
| 4 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stained | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 satin | det |
| 7 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stained | nsubj |
| 8 | stained | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 torn | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knocked | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pearls | det |
| 11 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 knocked | nsubj |
| 12 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stained | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 knocked | compound:prt |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · passive | the lace | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stain | past | the satin | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | knock off | past | the pearls | vn steal-10.5 «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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