The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 46
When they reached the country of the Man-eater, Ciccu made all the church bells toll and a proclamation to be made.
Who acts: pieces, Ciccu, church bells · What happens: reach, make, toll · To what, where: country, proclamation
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, Ciccu, church bells), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 eater | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eater | det |
| 8 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eater | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Man | punct |
| 10 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 12 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 bells | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bells | det |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bells | compound |
| 17 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 toll | nsubj |
| 18 | toll | toll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 proclamation | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 proclamation | det |
| 21 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 toll | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 made | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 made | aux:pass |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 proclamation | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | pieces = piece | the country of the Man eater | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Ciccu | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | toll | present | all church bells | a proclamation | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive · passive | all church bells not said here | a proclamation not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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