The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 44
Some people got a splinter in their hearts, and that was dreadful, for then it began to turn into a lump of ice.
Who acts: people, that, splinter · What happens: get, be, begin, turn · To what, where: splinter, hearts, lump
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 (people, that, splinter), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 splinter | det |
| 5 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hearts | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 splinter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreadful | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dreadful | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 dreadful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dreadful | cop |
| 13 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 then | case |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 began | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 turn | mark |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 lump | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lump | det |
| 23 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turn | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ice | case |
| 25 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lump | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | some people | a splinter | people's hearts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splinter=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | splinter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | turn | to-infinitive | splinter not said here | a lump of ice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lump=Trajectory |
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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