The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 184
When this set in the Snow-man set off.
What happens: set, set off · To what, where: this, Snow man
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Snow | punct |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle · passive | this | in the Snow man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in man=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set off | participle | the Snow man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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