The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 77
Then he ran and seized the coverlet, but as soon as he did so it sounded so that it could be heard over eight kingdoms, and the witch, who was at Troms Church, came flying home, and shouted, ‘Hey! is that you again, Esben?’
Who acts: door, it, witch, you · What happens: run, seize, do, sound, hear, be · To what, where: coverlet, hold, Troms Church, 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 (door, it, witch, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seized | cc |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coverlet | det |
| 7 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sounded | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 sounded | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 sounded | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 soon | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 sounded | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sounded | nsubj |
| 17 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 heard | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 heard | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 heard | aux:pass |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sounded | advcl |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 eight | advmod |
| 25 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 kingdoms | nummod |
| 26 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heard | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 came | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 witch | det |
| 30 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Church | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 Church | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 Church | cop |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 Church | case |
| 35 | Troms | Troms | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Church | compound |
| 36 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 witch | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Church | punct |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 39 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 came | xcomp |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 flying | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 shouted | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 shouted | cc |
| 43 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Hey | punct |
| 45 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 Hey | punct |
| 46 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 43 shouted | discourse |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 46 Hey | punct |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 Esben | cop |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 Esben | mark |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 Esben | nsubj |
| 51 | again | again | ADV | _ | 53 Esben | advmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Esben | punct |
| 53 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 54 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 53 Esben | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 Esben | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | door | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | door not said here | the coverlet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | door | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sound | past | it | soon property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hear | could · passive | hold | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the witch | Troms Church | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | past | the witch | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | fly | gerund | the witch not said here | home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | shout speech: express | past | door not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | is a | present | you | Esben | again | tree rules |
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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