The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 6
Suddenly he stepped on such a soft spot that his foot sank in the earth.
Who acts: back, foot · What happens: step, sink · To what, where: soft spot, earth
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, foot), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 spot | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spot | amod |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sank | obj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 foot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | nsubj |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spot | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | back | such soft spot | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spot=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sink | past | back's foot | such soft spot | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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