The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 41
Biscuits and gingerbreads were thrown among the people, the street boys stood on tiptoe crying hurrahs and whistling through their fingers.
Who acts: street boys · What happens: throw, stand, cry, whistle · To what, where: Biscuits, tiptoe, hurrahs, fingers
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 (street boys), 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 | Biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gingerbreads | cc |
| 3 | gingerbreads | gingerbread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Biscuits | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux:pass |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thrown | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 11 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boys | compound |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tiptoe | case |
| 15 | tiptoe | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 16 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | advcl |
| 17 | hurrahs | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crying | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 whistling | cc |
| 19 | whistling | whistle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 crying | conj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 fingers | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 whistling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | Biscuits and gingerbreads | among the people | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme among people=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the street boys | tiptoe | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | the street boys not said here | hurrahs | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic | ||||
| 4 | whistle | gerund | the street boys not said here | boys's fingers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through finger=Location |
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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