The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 113
Then the woodcutter came, and our family was split up.
Who acts: woodcutter · What happens: come, split up · To what, where: family
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodcutter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woodcutter | det |
| 3 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 split | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 split | cc |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 split | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 split | aux:pass |
| 10 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 split | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the woodcutter | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | split up | past · passive | our family | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/113/