The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 77
It was an enchanted trunk, for as soon as the lock was pressed it could fly.
Who acts: Trunk · What happens: enchant, be, press, fly · To what, where: enchanted trunk, lock
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 (Trunk), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 trunk | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trunk | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trunk | det |
| 4 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 trunk | amod |
| 5 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 soon | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 soon | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 trunk | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 pressed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lock | det |
| 12 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pressed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pressed | aux:pass |
| 14 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 soon | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fly | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fly | aux |
| 17 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pressed | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Trunk | a enchanted trunk | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | press | past · passive | the lock | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly | could | Trunk | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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