The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 54
But one of the beasts whose ears were longer than the rest caught the words, and went to tell Big Lion about it.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, catch, go, tell · To what, where: words, Big Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 caught | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 beasts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beasts | det |
| 5 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beasts | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 longer | cop |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 caught | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 caught | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | nsubj |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 words | det |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 caught | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Lion | compound |
| 22 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | one of the beasts and the beasts and ears's ears | the words | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | one of the beasts and the beasts and ears's ears not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | one of the beasts and the beasts and ears's ears not said here | Big Lion | about rest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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