The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 83
And in a very few minutes nothing was left of the rabbit but a few bones.
What happens: leave · To what, where: nothing
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: 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 | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 minutes | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 minutes | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 few | advmod |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 minutes | amod |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obl |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 left | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rabbit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rabbit | det |
| 12 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bones | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bones | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bones | amod |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rabbit | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | nothing | minute | of the rabbit but a few bones | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of rabbit=Destination |
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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