The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 22
The prince could not take away the wood as quickly as the dove could split it, and in a short time it was all cleft into little sticks.
Who acts: prince, dove · What happens: not take away, split, be · To what, where: wood, little sticks, cleft
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, dove), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 quickly | advmod |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 split | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dove | det |
| 13 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 split | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 split | aux |
| 15 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 split | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cleft | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cleft | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cleft | obl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cleft | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cleft | cop |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 cleft | det |
| 26 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 split | obl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 sticks | case |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sticks | amod |
| 29 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 split | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take away | could | the prince | the wood | quickly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | |||
| 2 | split | could | the dove | wood | into little sticks result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into stick=Result | |||
| 3 | is a | past | dove | all cleft | time | tree rules |
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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