The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 57
The broom missed the bird, but knocked down and broke the vase on the bracket, which did not soothe the angry woman.
Who acts: broom, bracket · What happens: miss, knock down, break, not soothe · To what, where: bird, vase, bracket, angry woman
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 (broom, bracket), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 broom | det |
| 2 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 missed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knocked | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 knocked | cc |
| 8 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 missed | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 knocked | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broke | cc |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knocked | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vase | det |
| 13 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bracket | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bracket | det |
| 16 | bracket | bracket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 soothe | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 soothe | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 soothe | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 soothe | advmod |
| 21 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bracket | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 woman | det |
| 23 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woman | amod |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 soothe | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | the broom | the bird | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | knock down | past | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | break | past | the vase | the bracket | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vase=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not soothe | past · do-support | the bracket | the angry woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer |
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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