The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 80
It did not hurt him at all, but the splinter was there all the same.
Who acts: splinter · What happens: not hurt, be · To what, where: Gerda, all
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 hurt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 there | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 splinter | det |
| 11 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 there | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 there | cop |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 same | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 there | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | past · do-support | splinter | Gerda | all | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the splinter | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the splinter not said here | tree rules |
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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