The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 91
At this there arose a terrible uproar among the evil spirits, and the worst voice among them all said, ‘Ride home and tell Peter that when he comes to-morrow he shall get twice as many strokes as usual.’
Who acts: worst voice, voice · What happens: arise, say, ride, tell, come, get · To what, where: terrible uproar, this, Peter, morrow, many strokes · 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 (worst voice, voice), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 arose | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 arose | expl |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 uproar | det |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 uproar | amod |
| 7 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | obj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 spirits | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spirits | det |
| 10 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spirits | amod |
| 11 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arose | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 voice | nmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ride | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ride | punct |
| 23 | Ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 Ride | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tell | cc |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Ride | conj |
| 27 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 comes | mark |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 comes | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 comes | nsubj |
| 31 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 morrow | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 to | punct |
| 34 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 comes | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 get | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 get | aux |
| 37 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 morrow | acl:relcl |
| 38 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 40 many | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 many | advmod |
| 40 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 strokes | amod |
| 41 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 get | obj |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 usual | case |
| 43 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 get | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ride | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a terrible uproar | this; there | among the evil spirits | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location uproar=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the worst voice among nuts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ride | infinitive | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Peter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | present | voice | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | get | shall | voice | many strokes | as usual | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus as usual=Attribute |
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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