The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 52
In the winter they could not do this, but then they put hot pennies against the frozen window-panes, and made round holes to look at each other through.
Who acts: peas · What happens: not do, put, make, look · To what, where: this, hot pennies, frozen window panes, round holes
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 (peas), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 winter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 winter | det |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 put | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | parataxis |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pennies | amod |
| 15 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 panes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 panes | det |
| 18 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 panes | amod |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 panes | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 window | punct |
| 21 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | conj |
| 25 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 holes | amod |
| 26 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 look | mark |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 made | advcl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 each | case |
| 30 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 28 look | obl |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 each | fixed |
| 32 | through | through | ADV | _ | 28 look | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could | peas = pea | this | winter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | put | past | peas = pea | hot pennies | the frozen window panes | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent penny=Theme against pane=Destination | ||
| 3 | make | past | peas = pea not said here | round holes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | peas = pea not said here | at each; through property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
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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