The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 75
The moment she was out of sight she broke her almond, and drew from it the most magnificent petticoats that ever were seen.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: be, break, draw, see · To what, where: moment, sight, almond, magnificent petticoats
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 (maiden), 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 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 almond | nmod:poss |
| 11 | almond | almond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broke | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 petticoats | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 magnificent | advmod |
| 19 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 petticoats | amod |
| 20 | petticoats | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drew | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 seen | advmod |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 petticoats | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maiden | the moment not said here | sight | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break | past | maiden | maiden's almond | moment | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer almond=Patient | |||
| 3 | draw | past | maiden not said here | the magnificent petticoats | almond | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent petticoat=Theme from it=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | see | past · passive | the magnificent petticoats | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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