The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 5
After this it slipped out, and no one could get hold of it.
Who acts: it, one · What happens: slip out, get, hold · To what, where: hold
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, one), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 slipped | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slipped | nsubj |
| 4 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 slipped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slipped | conj |
| 12 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hold | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip out | past | it | after this | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | get | could | no one | hold of hold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hold | hold | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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