The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 92
Then he rolled up the thread and put it carefully into his pocket, breathing silent thanks to the fairy.
Who acts: thread · What happens: roll up, put, breathe · To what, where: thread, jerk, pocket, silent thanks
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread), 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 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rolled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thread | det |
| 6 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rolled | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pocket | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl | ||
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 breathing | punct |
| 15 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 put | advcl |
| 16 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thanks | amod |
| 17 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 breathing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 fairy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fairy | det |
| 20 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thanks | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll up | past | thread | the thread | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Agent | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | thread not said here | jerk | thread's pocket | carefully property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | thread not said here | silent thanks | to the fairy | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
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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