The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 29
So their first meeting took place in the air, but it was none the less happy for that; and the fan grew big enough to hold the king as well as Aveline, who had hastened to give them some good advice.
Who acts: first meeting, meeting, fan, king · What happens: take, be, grow, hold, hasten, give · To what, where: place, air, none, king, good advice, alas
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 (first meeting, meeting, fan, king), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 meeting | nmod:poss |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 meeting | amod |
| 4 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 none | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 none | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 none | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 none | cop |
| 14 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 took | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 happy | det |
| 16 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 happy | advmod |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 none | amod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 happy | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grew | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fan | det |
| 23 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grew | xcomp |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 big | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hold | mark |
| 28 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 big | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hold | obj |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 34 Aveline | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 34 | Aveline | Aveline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 king | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hastened | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 hastened | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 hastened | aux |
| 38 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 king | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 give | mark |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 hastened | xcomp |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 give | iobj |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 advice | det |
| 43 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 advice | amod |
| 44 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 give | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | alas's first meeting | place | the air | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in air=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | meeting | none | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the fan | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | the fan not said here | the king as Aveline | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hasten | past · perfect | the king as Aveline | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | the king as Aveline not said here | some good advice | alas = ala | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient advice=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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