The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 16
‘The old chair-cover in the corner split when he saw her.
Who acts: old chair cover, cover · What happens: split, see · To what, where: beginning
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old chair cover, cover), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 split | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cover | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cover | amod |
| 4 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cover | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 chair | punct |
| 6 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 split | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cover | nmod |
| 10 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 split | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | past | the old chair cover in the corner | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | cover | beginning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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