The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 111
Whenever he crowed and flapped his wings the rock opened and something came out of it.
Who acts: sound, rock, something · What happens: crow, flap, open, come out · To what, where: wings
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, rock, something), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 crowed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crowed | nsubj |
| 3 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | advcl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flapped | cc |
| 5 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crowed | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flapped | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | past | sound | whenever property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flap | past | sound not said here | sound's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the rock | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come out | past | something | of rock; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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