The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 98
This time she cracked the nut as soon as she came near the place where the spirits appeared, and what then happened to them she could not see, but amid wild screams and howls the contract was handed to her at the end of a long branch.
Who acts: Spirit, spirits · What happens: crack, come, appear, happen, not see, howl · To what, where: nut, place, nuts, contract, Spirit, end
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 (Spirit, spirits), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cracked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cracked | nsubj |
| 4 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nut | det |
| 6 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cracked | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 cracked | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 soon | advcl |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 appeared | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spirits | det |
| 17 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 appeared | nsubj |
| 18 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 happened | cc |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 happened | advmod |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cracked | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 happened | obl |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 see | advmod |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 happened | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 screams | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 screams | cc |
| 32 | amid | amid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 screams | amod |
| 33 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 screams | amod |
| 34 | screams | scream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cracked | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 howls | cc |
| 36 | howls | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cracked | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 contract | det |
| 38 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 handed | aux:pass |
| 40 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 howls | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 handed | obl |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 end | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 end | det |
| 45 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 handed | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 branch | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 branch | det |
| 48 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 branch | amod |
| 49 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 end | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cracked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | past | Spirit | the nut | time | amid wild screams obl; soon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | Spirit | the place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near place=Location | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | the spirits | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | happen | past | nuts = nut | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not see | could | Spirit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | howl | present | Spirit not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | hand | past · passive | the contract | Spirit | at the end of a long branch | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/98/