The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 7
Esben watched his chance, seized the lamp, and gave her a push from behind, so that she plumped head first into the well.
Who acts: Esben, his · What happens: watch, seize, give, plump, chance · To what, where: chance, lamp, push, Esben, head, well
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 (Esben, his), 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 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 chance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lamp | det |
| 8 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | parataxis |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 push | det |
| 14 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 behind | case |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 14 push | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plumped | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 plumped | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 plumped | nsubj |
| 21 | plumped | plump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plumped | obj |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 plumped | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 well | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 well | det |
| 26 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plumped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Esben | his chance | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Esben not said here | the lamp | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | a push | Esben | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plump | past | Esben | head | the well | first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||
| 5 | chance | his = he | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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