The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 87
‘Well, it certainly did run just now, for I saw it quite plainly over there, and now here it is on this side.’
Who acts: moon, I · What happens: run, see, be · To what, where: moon, side
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 (moon, I), 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 | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 run | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 run | nsubj |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 run | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | aux |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 now | advmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 run | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 plainly | advmod |
| 16 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 13 saw | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 there | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 plainly | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 side | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 side | cc |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 here | advmod |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 side | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 side | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 side | cop |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 side | det |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · do-support | moon | now | certainly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | I | moon | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | moon | this side; here | 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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