The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 43
And if he blows at the wide end they shall all be sunk in the waves.’
Who acts: youth, waves · What happens: blow, sink · To what, where: wide end, seas
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 (youth, waves), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 blows | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 blows | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | amod |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sunk | aux |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 sunk | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sunk | aux:pass |
| 13 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 end | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 waves | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waves | det |
| 16 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sunk | obl:agent |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blows | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | youth | at the wide end | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sink | shall · passive | the waves | seas = sea | all property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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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