The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 11
Out of pure spite she was sent in the heat of the day to look after the geese, and would most likely have got a sunstroke if she had not happened to pick up in the fields a large fan, with which she sheltered her face.
Who acts: princess, day · What happens: send, look, get, not happen, pick up, shelter · To what, where: princess, pure spite, sunstroke, fields, face
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, day), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 3 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spite | amod |
| 4 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | aux:pass |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 heat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heat | det |
| 10 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heat | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 geese | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 geese | det |
| 18 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 look | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 got | aux |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 likely | advmod |
| 23 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 25 got | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 got | aux |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sent | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sunstroke | det |
| 27 | sunstroke | sunstroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obj |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 happened | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 happened | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 happened | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 happened | advmod |
| 32 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 got | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 pick | mark |
| 34 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 happened | xcomp |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 pick | compound:prt |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 fields | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fields | det |
| 38 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 pick | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 fan | det |
| 40 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fan | amod |
| 41 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fields | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sheltered | punct |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 which | case |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 sheltered | obl |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 sheltered | nsubj |
| 46 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 happened | conj |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 face | nmod:poss |
| 48 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sheltered | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | princess | pure spite | in the heat of the day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in heat=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | after the geese | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | would · perfect | a sunstroke | likely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunstroke=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not happen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pick up | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the fields a large fan | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | shelter | past | princess | princess's face | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Theme with which=Location | ||||
| 7 | heat | the day | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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