The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 51
The witch awoke, sprang out of bed, and caught hold of Esben.
Who acts: witch · What happens: awake, spring out, catch, hold · To what, where: bed, hold, Esben
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caught | cc |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 12 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Esben | case |
| 14 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the witch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spring out | past | the witch not said here | bed | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | the witch not said here | hold of Esben | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | Esben | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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