The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 87
At this her tongue broke loose again, as she abused him for his folly in taking the little one, and she never rested till her husband had described the exact way which led to the sparrow-princess’s house.
Who acts: woman, exact way · What happens: break, abuse, take, not rest, describe, lead · To what, where: tongue, blaze, little one, husband
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 (woman, exact way), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 tongue | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tongue | det |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | obl |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 5 broke | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 broke | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 abused | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 abused | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 abused | nsubj |
| 11 | abused | abuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broke | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 abused | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 folly | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 folly | nmod:poss |
| 15 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abused | obl |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 taking | mark |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 abused | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rested | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rested | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rested | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 rested | advmod |
| 25 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broke | conj |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 described | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 described | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 described | aux |
| 30 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 rested | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 32 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 way | amod |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 described | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 led | nsubj |
| 35 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 way | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 house | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 princess | det |
| 38 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 princess | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 sparrow | punct |
| 40 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 house | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 princess | case |
| 42 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 led | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | woman's tongue | again | loose property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tongue=Location | |||
| 2 | abuse | past | woman | blaze | for blaze's folly | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for folly=Attribute | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | woman not said here | the little one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not rest | past | woman | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | describe | past · perfect · passive | woman's husband | the exact way obl:unmarked | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lead | past | the exact way | to the sparrow princess's house | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to house=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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