The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 4
And Ciccu did exactly as the horse bade him, and went back to the king, and before the eyes of the fairest in the world he sprang into the oven.
Who acts: Ciccu, eyes · What happens: do, go back, spring · To what, where: horse bade, oven
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 (Ciccu, eyes), 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 | _ | 3 did | cc |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 bade | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 bade | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bade | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bade | compound |
| 8 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sprang | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sprang | cc |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eyes | det |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sprang | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fairest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fairest | det |
| 24 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 eyes | amod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fairest | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sprang | nsubj |
| 29 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 oven | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 oven | det |
| 32 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sprang | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ciccu | the horse bade | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | Ciccu not said here | to the king result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | the eyes | the oven | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into oven=Destination |
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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