The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 39
The waiting-woman was then summoned, and admitted that she had thrown it out through the window into the forest.
Who acts: youth · What happens: summon, admit, throw out · To what, where: waiting woman, onion, window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 summoned | aux:pass |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 summoned | advmod |
| 7 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 admitted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 admitted | cc |
| 10 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 summoned | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 thrown | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thrown | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | aux |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 admitted | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thrown | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 thrown | compound:prt |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · passive | the waiting woman | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | throw out | past · perfect | youth | onion | the window | into the forest result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into forest=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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