The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 4
The thought of this ran in his head so much, after the wine was out of it, that he searched about everywhere for a way of escape, and finally, at eleven o’clock, he found a little postern in the steeple which was not locked, and out at this he crept, intending to run away.
Who acts: thought, wine, this · What happens: run, be, search, find, not lock, creep · To what, where: head, wine, little postern, eleven o’clock, steeple, this
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 (thought, wine, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thought | det |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 thought | nmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 it | punct |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 it | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wine | det |
| 14 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 it | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 it | cop |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 searched | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 searched | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 searched | nsubj |
| 22 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 everywhere | advmod |
| 24 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 searched | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 searched | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 escape | case |
| 29 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 way | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 found | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 found | cc |
| 32 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 39 found | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 finally | punct |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 o’clock | case |
| 35 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 o’clock | nummod |
| 36 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 found | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 o’clock | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 found | nsubj |
| 39 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 postern | det |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 postern | amod |
| 42 | postern | postern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 found | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 steeple | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 steeple | det |
| 45 | steeple | steeple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 found | obl |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 locked | aux:pass |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 locked | advmod |
| 49 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 steeple | acl:relcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 crept | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 crept | cc |
| 52 | out | out | ADV | _ | 54 this | advmod |
| 53 | at | at | ADP | _ | 54 this | case |
| 54 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 56 crept | nsubj |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 crept | nsubj |
| 56 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 intending | punct |
| 58 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 56 crept | advcl |
| 59 | to | to | PART | _ | 60 run | mark |
| 60 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 intending | xcomp |
| 61 | away | away | ADV | _ | 60 run | advmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the thought of this | thought's head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the wine | wine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | search | past | thought | for a way of escape; everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | thought | a little postern | eleven o’clock | in the steeple; finally property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent postern=Theme at o'clock=Asset | ||
| 5 | not lock | past · passive | the steeple | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | creep | past | this | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | intend | gerund | this not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | this not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | think | this | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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