The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 9
But there was no answer, not even a growl, for the hailstones had killed Big Lion.
Who acts: answer · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: hailstones
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 (answer), 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 | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 answer | det |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 growl | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 growl | advmod |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 growl | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 growl | det |
| 10 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hailstones | det |
| 14 | hailstones | hailstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | aux |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | conj |
| 17 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lion | compound |
| 18 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no answer a growl | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the hailstones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer lion=Result |
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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