The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 46
Then the boy let the flute slip through his fingers, and trod on it, as if by accident.
Who acts: boy · What happens: let, tread · To what, where: flute slip, fingers, slip
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slip | det |
| 6 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slip | compound |
| 7 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 fingers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trod | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trod | cc |
| 13 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trod | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 accident | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 accident | case |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 accident | case |
| 20 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trod | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the boy | the flute slip | boy's fingers | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme | ||
| 2 | tread | past | the boy not said here | slip | as accident | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
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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