The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 7
When he had quite done he climbed up on the hut, and, blowing his flute, he chanted ‘Pii, pii, fall rain and hail,’ and directly the sky was full of clouds, the thunder roared, and huge hailstones whitened the roof of the hut.
Who acts: hare, Pii, sky, thunder, huge hailstones · What happens: do, climb up, blow, chant, fall, be · To what, where: hut, flute, rain, clouds, 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 (hare, Pii, sky, thunder), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 done | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 climbed | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 climbed | nsubj |
| 7 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 climbed | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blowing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blowing | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blowing | punct |
| 15 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 climbed | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 flute | nmod:poss |
| 17 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blowing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chanted | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 chanted | nsubj |
| 20 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 climbed | parataxis |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pii | punct |
| 22 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fall | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pii | punct |
| 24 | pii | pii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Pii | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fall | punct |
| 26 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 chanted | ccomp |
| 27 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fall | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hail | cc |
| 29 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rain | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fall | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 fall | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 full | cc |
| 33 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 37 full | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sky | det |
| 35 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 full | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 full | cop |
| 37 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chanted | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 clouds | case |
| 39 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 full | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 roared | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 thunder | det |
| 42 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 roared | nsubj |
| 43 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 whitened | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 whitened | cc |
| 46 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 hailstones | amod |
| 47 | hailstones | hailstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 whitened | nsubj |
| 48 | whitened | whiten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 climbed | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 roof | det |
| 50 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 whitened | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 hut | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 hut | det |
| 53 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 roof | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | hare | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | climb up | past | hare | the hut | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hut=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | blow | gerund | hare not said here | hare's flute | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flute=Patient | ||||
| 4 | chant | past | hare | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | fall | infinitive | Pii and pii | rain and hail | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rain=Result | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the sky | of clouds; directly, full property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | roar | past | the thunder | clouds not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme | ||||
| 8 | whiten | past | huge hailstones | the roof of the hut | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent roof=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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