The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 75
Kay and Gerda were looking at one of their picture-books--the clock in the great church-tower had just struck five, when Kay exclaimed, ‘Oh! something has stung my heart, and I’ve got something in my eye!’
Who acts: Kay, I · What happens: look, strike, exclaim, sting, have, get · To what, where: clock, something, eye
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 (Kay, I), 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 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Gerda | cc |
| 3 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kay | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 books | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 books | nmod:poss |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 books | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 picture | punct |
| 12 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 clock | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clock | det |
| 15 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 tower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tower | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tower | amod |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tower | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 church | punct |
| 21 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clock | nmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 struck | aux |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 struck | advmod |
| 24 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 one | conj |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 struck | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 exclaimed | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 exclaimed | advmod |
| 28 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 29 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stung | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 stung | punct |
| 32 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 36 stung | discourse |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 Oh | punct |
| 34 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 stung | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 stung | aux |
| 36 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stung | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ’ve | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 ’ve | cc |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 ’ve | nsubj |
| 42 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | parataxis |
| 43 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 something | amod |
| 44 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 ’ve | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 eye | case |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 eye | nmod:poss |
| 47 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ’ve | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | Kay and Gerda | at one of Kay's picture books | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past · perfect · passive | the clock in the great church tower | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient five=Result | |||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | Kay | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sting | present · perfect · passive | something | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer heart=Result | |||||
| 5 | have | present | I | something | my eye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 6 | get | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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