The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 4
He started to the feathers, and picked and picked until there was only a single feather left that had not passed through his hands.
Who acts: He, single feather · What happens: start, pick, be, leave, not pass · To what, where: that, hands
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 (He, single feather), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 feathers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feathers | det |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 started | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 picked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 picked | cc |
| 8 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 started | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 picked | cc |
| 10 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 picked | conj |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | advcl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 feather | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 feather | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feather | amod |
| 17 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 picked | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 passed | obj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 passed | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 passed | advmod |
| 22 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 left | ccomp |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 passed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | He | to the feathers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pick | participle | He not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pick | participle | He not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | past | a single feather not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | a single feather | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not pass | past · perfect | a single feather not said here | that | his hands | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent that=Theme through hand=Destination |
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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