The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 111
‘Oh, just a little branch sticking out.
Who acts: little branch · What happens: stick out
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 (little branch), 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 | _ | 8 sticking | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 sticking | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 sticking | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 branch | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 branch | amod |
| 7 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sticking | nsubj |
| 8 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sticking | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sticking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick out | gerund | a little branch | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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