The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 42

And now came the greatest misfortune of all, for each of the pieces was hardly as large as a grain of sand and they flew about all over the world, and if anyone had a bit in his eye there it stayed, and then he would see everything awry, or else could only see the bad sides of a case.

Who acts: each, pieces, anyone, bit, rain · What happens: come, be, fly, have, stay, see · To what, where: greatest misfortune, world, bit, eye, everything, bad sides

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, pieces, anyone, bit), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 misfortune	det
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 misfortune	amod
6	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 misfortune	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 large	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 large	mark
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 large	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pieces	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pieces	det
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 each	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 large	cop
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 grain	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 grain	det
21	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 large	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 sand	case
23	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grain	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flew	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flew	nsubj
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 all	advmod
28	all	all	ADV	_	31 world	advmod
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 had	mark
35	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bit	det
38	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 eye	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 eye	nmod:poss
41	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obl
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 eye	advmod
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stayed	nsubj
44	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 eye	acl:relcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 see	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 see	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 see	advmod
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 see	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 see	aux
50	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
51	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	50 see	obj
52	awry	awry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 everything	amod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 see	punct
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 see	cc
55	else	else	ADV	_	58 see	advmod
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 see	aux
57	only	only	ADV	_	58 see	advmod
58	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 see	conj
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 sides	det
60	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 sides	amod
61	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 see	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 case	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 case	det
64	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sides	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		the greatest misfortune of all		now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location misfortune=Theme
2	is	past	each				as a grain of sand; hardly, large property	tree rules
3	fly	past	pieces = piece		the world			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Location
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	anyone	a bit	rain's eye			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
5	stay	past	bit	rain's eye not said here				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme eye=Location
6	see	would	rain	everything		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
7	see	could	rain not said here	the bad sides of a case			else property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=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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