The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 23
It was only a minute before the stick had again landed Esben at the king’s palace, and the brothers were then freed from their distress.
Who acts: lamp, minute, brothers · What happens: be, land, free, distress · To what, where: minute, stick, palace, brothers, distress
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, minute, brothers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 minute | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 minute | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 minute | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minute | det |
| 5 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 landed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 landed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 landed | aux |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 landed | advmod |
| 11 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 minute | acl |
| 12 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 landed | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 landed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 freed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 freed | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brothers | det |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 freed | aux:pass |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 freed | advmod |
| 24 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 minute | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 distress | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 distress | nmod:poss |
| 27 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 freed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 minute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lamp | a minute | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | land | past · perfect · passive | a minute not said here | the stick | the king's palace | again | tree rules | ||
| 3 | free | past · passive | a minute not said here | the brothers | brothers's distress | then | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||
| 4 | distress | brothers = brother | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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