The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 107
The panther galloped away as if she was mad, and flung herself into the nearest lake, but every time she raised her head, the bees stung her afresh so at last the poor beast was drowned altogether.
Who acts: panther, bees · What happens: gallop away, be, fling, raise, sting, drown · To what, where: Panther, nearest lake, head, last poor beast
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (panther, bees), 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 panther | det |
| 2 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 galloped | nsubj |
| 3 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 galloped | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 mad | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 mad | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mad | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mad | cop |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 galloped | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flung | cc |
| 12 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 galloped | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 flung | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 16 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 lake | amod |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stung | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 stung | cc |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stung | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 raised | nsubj |
| 23 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 raised | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bees | det |
| 28 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stung | nsubj |
| 29 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 galloped | parataxis |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stung | obj |
| 31 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stung | xcomp |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 drowned | advmod |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 beast | case |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 beast | amod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 beast | det |
| 36 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 beast | amod |
| 37 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 drowned | obl |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 drowned | aux:pass |
| 39 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 stung | advcl |
| 40 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 39 drowned | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop away | past | the panther | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Panther | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | the panther not said here | Panther | the nearest lake | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into lake=Destination | |||
| 4 | raise | past | Panther | Panther's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sting | past | the bees | Panther | time | afresh property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||
| 6 | drown | past · passive | the bees not said here | the last poor beast | altogether property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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