The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 60
With the first sunbeam she broke into the room, but there she found no prince and no princess--nothing but the two pieces of firewood, which lay in the bed, and stared, and spoke not a word.
Who acts: piece, two pieces · What happens: break, find, lie, stare, not speak · To what, where: room, prince, bed, word · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (piece, two pieces), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 sunbeam | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sunbeam | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sunbeam | amod |
| 4 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 found | expl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 princess | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prince | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 princess | appos |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 pieces | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pieces | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | nummod |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 nothing | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 firewood | case |
| 27 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pieces | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lay | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 lay | nsubj |
| 30 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pieces | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 bed | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bed | det |
| 33 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lay | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stared | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stared | cc |
| 36 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 spoke | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 spoke | cc |
| 39 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 stared | conj |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 spoke | advmod |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 word | det |
| 42 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spoke | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | piece | into the room result; with the first sunbeam | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sunbeam=Instrument into room=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | past | piece | no prince and no princess | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||
| 3 | lie | past | the two pieces of firewood | the bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 4 | stare | past | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not speak speech: other | past | a word | 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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