The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 41
When the fight was ended, the buffalo skins were in ribbons, and the beaten animal writhing with pain on the grass.
Who acts: fight, buffalo skins · What happens: be, beat · To what, where: ribbons
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fight, buffalo skins), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | cop |
| 5 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ribbons | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skins | det |
| 8 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skins | compound |
| 9 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ribbons | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ribbons | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ribbons | case |
| 12 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ended | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 writhing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 writhing | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 writhing | det |
| 16 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 writhing | amod |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 writhing | compound |
| 18 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 pain | case |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 writhing | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 grass | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grass | det |
| 23 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 writhing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fight | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the buffalo skins | ribbons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 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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