The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 131
She had grown hungry, and had taken such a fancy to some porridge.
Who acts: Witch · What happens: grow, take · To what, where: fancy, porridge
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | aux |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grown | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taken | cc |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 grown | conj |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 fancy | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fancy | det |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 porridge | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 porridge | det |
| 14 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | Witch | hungry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | Witch not said here | such fancy | some porridge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to porridge=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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