The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 30
How they spluttered and flamed, to be sure!
Who acts: matches · What happens: splutter, flame, be
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 (matches), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 spluttered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spluttered | nsubj |
| 3 | spluttered | splutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flamed | cc |
| 5 | flamed | flame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spluttered | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sure | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | cop |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flamed | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 spluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splutter | past | matches = match | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | flame | past | matches = match not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | matches = match not said here | sure property | 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.
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