The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 117
When Peppe uncovered his basket sure enough a layer of beautiful purple figs met the king’s eyes, but underneath there was nothing but dirt.
Who acts: Peppe, layer, nothing · What happens: uncover, meet, be · To what, where: basket, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppe, layer, nothing), 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 | 3 uncovered | advmod |
| 2 | Peppe | Peppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uncovered | nsubj |
| 3 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 basket | nmod:poss |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uncovered | obj |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 basket | amod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 layer | det |
| 9 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 figs | case |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 figs | amod |
| 12 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 figs | amod |
| 13 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 layer | nmod |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 met | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 21 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 23 was | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uncovered | conj |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 was | nsubj |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 dirt | cc |
| 26 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nothing | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uncovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncover | past | Peppe | king's basket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a layer of beautiful purple figs | the king's eyes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | underneath property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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