The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 61
These she threw on the floor, so that they were splintered into a thousand pieces, and off she hastened after the fugitives.
Who acts: These, piece · What happens: throw, splinter, hasten · To what, where: floor, pot, thousand pieces
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 (These, piece), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 splintered | punct |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 splintered | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 splintered | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 splintered | aux:pass |
| 12 | splintered | splinter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 threw | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pieces | nummod |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 splintered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hastened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hastened | cc |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 hastened | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hastened | nsubj |
| 21 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 fugitives | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fugitives | det |
| 24 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hastened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | These | the floor | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination | ||||
| 2 | splinter | past · passive | pot | into thousand pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result | ||||
| 3 | hasten | past | piece | after the fugitives | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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