The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 102
And it was shut, and great stones were rolled against it.
Who acts: gate · What happens: be, roll · To what, where: great stones, gate
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shut | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shut | cop |
| 4 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rolled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rolled | cc |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stones | amod |
| 8 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rolled | aux:pass |
| 10 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shut | conj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rolled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gate | shut property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll | past · passive | great stones | gate | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme against it=Trajectory |
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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