The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 26
He was in this state when, one morning, he happened to be passing a fine palace; and, as the sun was shining bright and warm, he sat down on the steps and tried to shake off some of the dust which he had picked up on the road.
Who acts: Don, sun · What happens: be, happen, pass, shine, sit down, try · To what, where: state, fine palace, some, dust, road
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 state | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 state | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 state | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 state | det |
| 5 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 happened | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 morning | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 morning | nummod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 morning | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 state | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 passing | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 passing | aux |
| 15 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 happened | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 palace | amod |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passing | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 sat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sat | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 and | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 shining | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shining | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shining | aux |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 sat | advcl |
| 27 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shining | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 warm | cc |
| 29 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bright | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shining | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sat | nsubj |
| 32 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 state | parataxis |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 sat | compound:prt |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 steps | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 steps | det |
| 36 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sat | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 tried | cc |
| 38 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sat | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 shake | mark |
| 40 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 tried | xcomp |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 shake | compound:prt |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 shake | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 dust | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 dust | det |
| 45 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 some | nmod |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 picked | aux |
| 49 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 dust | acl:relcl |
| 50 | up | up | ADP | _ | 49 picked | compound:prt |
| 51 | on | on | ADP | _ | 53 road | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 road | det |
| 53 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 picked | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Don | this state | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | Don | morning | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive · progressive | Don not said here | a fine palace | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit down | past | Don | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 6 | try | past | Don not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | shake off not said to happen | to-infinitive | Don not said here | some | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 8 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | the dust | the road | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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