The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 86
But when they got out to sea, and Maiden Bright-eye came up on deck, the sister did as her mother had instructed her--she gave her a push and made her fall into the water.
Who acts: orders, Maiden eye, sister · What happens: get out, come up, do, instruct, give, make · To what, where: deck, mother, push, sister, water
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 (orders, Maiden eye, sister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 10 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eye | compound |
| 11 | Bright | Bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Maiden | flat |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Maiden | punct |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 deck | case |
| 17 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sister | det |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 instructed | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 instructed | aux |
| 26 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 did | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 instructed | obj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 gave | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | nsubj |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | parataxis |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | iobj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 push | det |
| 33 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 made | cc |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gave | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 made | obj |
| 37 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 made | xcomp |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 water | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 water | det |
| 40 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fall | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | orders = order | to sea; out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | Maiden eye | deck | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the sister | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | instruct speech: other | past · perfect · passive | sister's mother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give | past | sister | a push | mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme | |||
| 6 | make | past | sister not said here | sister | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fall | infinitive | sister not said here | into the water result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |
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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