The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 76
While he was away she looked about her in the hut a little more closely, and found a tub full of shirts stained with blood, lying among water.
Who acts: man, queen · What happens: be, look, find, stain, lie · To what, where: hut, tub, shirts, water
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 (man, queen), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 away | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 away | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 away | cop |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 more | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 looked | advmod |
| 15 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tub | det |
| 20 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tub | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 shirts | case |
| 23 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | obl |
| 24 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 shirts | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 blood | case |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stained | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lying | punct |
| 28 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 found | advcl |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lying | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | queen | the hut | about Peter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | queen not said here | a tub | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stain | participle | shirts not said here | with blood | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | queen not said here | water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among water=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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