The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 20
When the clock struck one, the appearance had to go back into the chest again, and Christian heard the lid slam after it.
Who acts: clock, appearance, Christian · What happens: strike, have, go back, hear · To what, where: one, chest, lid slam
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, appearance, Christian), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 struck | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clock | det |
| 3 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 struck | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 appearance | det |
| 8 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 chest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chest | det |
| 15 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 19 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 slam | det |
| 22 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slam | compound |
| 23 | slam | slam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obj |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the clock | one | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the appearance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go back | to-infinitive | the appearance not said here | the chest | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | hear | past | Christian | the lid slam | after appearance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer slam=Stimulus |
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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