The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 58
‘And when the rain comes from that quarter, which side do you turn to?’
Who acts: rain, you · What happens: come, turn · To what, where: quarter
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 (rain, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 comes | cc |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 comes | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rain | det |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 turn | advcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 quarter | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 quarter | det |
| 9 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 side | punct |
| 11 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quarter | conj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 turn | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 turn | nsubj |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 turn | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the rain | that quarter and which side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from quarter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | turn | present · do-support | you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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