The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 43
‘Who’s that pulling the roof off my house?’
What happens: pull · To what, where: roof, house
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulling | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 pulling | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulling | aux |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 pulling | mark |
| 5 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roof | det |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulling | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulling | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulling | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present · progressive | the roof | my house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent roof=Theme off house=Initial_Location |
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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