The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 119
Almost unconsciously he opened it, and a purple vapour came pouring out.
Who acts: man, purple vapour · What happens: open, come, pour out · To what, where: counter-charm
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, purple vapour), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 unconsciously | advmod |
| 2 | unconsciously | unconsciously | ADV | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 vapour | det |
| 9 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 vapour | amod |
| 10 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 12 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 came | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pouring | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | man | counter-charm | unconsciously property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | a purple vapour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pour out | gerund | a purple vapour not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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