The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 95
In the midst of all this they met a wonderful vessel--it was a dough-trough, in which there sat an old woman.
Who acts: princes, vessel · What happens: meet, be, sit · To what, where: wonderful vessel, midst, dough trough, old woman
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 (princes, vessel), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 this | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 vessel | det |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vessel | amod |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 trough | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trough | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 trough | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 trough | det |
| 16 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trough | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 dough | punct |
| 18 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sat | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sat | obl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sat | advmod |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 met | conj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woman | amod |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sat | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | princes = prince | a wonderful vessel | the midst of this | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | vessel | a dough trough | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | princes = prince not said here | a old woman | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in which=Location |
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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