The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 45
Whirr-r-r, how they fizzed and blazed!
Who acts: kinds · What happens: fizz, blaze · To what, where: Whirr r r
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 (kinds), 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 | Whirr | Whirr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 r | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whirr | punct |
| 3 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 r | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 r | punct |
| 5 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fizzed | nmod:desc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fizzed | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 fizzed | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fizzed | nsubj |
| 9 | fizzed | fizz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blazed | cc |
| 11 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fizzed | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 fizzed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fizz | past | kinds = kind | Whirr r r | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blaze | past | kinds = kind not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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