The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 11
But one day a great wind arose, and flung down the Big Lion’s half-dried skin from the roof of the hut.
Who acts: great wind · What happens: arise, fling, dry · To what, where: roof
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great wind), 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 | _ | 7 arose | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wind | amod |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | nsubj |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flung | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flung | cc |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 arose | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lion | det |
| 13 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lion | compound |
| 14 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 skin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Lion | case |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 dried | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 half | punct |
| 18 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 skin | amod |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 roof | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 roof | det |
| 22 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hut | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hut | det |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roof | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a great wind | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling | participle | a great wind not said here | the roof of the hut | down the Big Lion's dried skin | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from roof=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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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