The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 69
The queen then caught sight of a man who carried some venison.
Who acts: queen, man · What happens: catch, carry, sight · To what, where: sight, venison, man
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 (queen, man), 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 | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 caught | advmod |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 venison | det |
| 12 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the queen | sight of a man | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | a man | some venison | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venison=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | a man | nom sight «cognition 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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