The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 51
He made haste to repeat the words, and at the same moment he became a fish again and slipped out into the sea.
Who acts: troll · What happens: haste, repeat, become, slip out · To what, where: words, fish, sea
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll), 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 | 3 haste | nsubj |
| 2 | made | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 haste | aux |
| 3 | haste | haste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 repeat | mark |
| 5 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 haste | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 repeat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moment | amod |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 haste | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fish | det |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 became | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 slipped | cc |
| 20 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 became | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 slipped | compound:prt |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slipped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 haste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haste | may | troll | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | repeat | to-infinitive | troll not said here | the words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | become | past | troll | a fish | again; moment | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | slip out | past | troll not said here | the sea | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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