The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 55
It was a heart cut out of one huge ruby, and was surrounded by several diamond arrows, and pierced by one.
Who acts: honour, heart, several diamond arrows · What happens: be, cut out, surround, pierce · To what, where: heart, one huge ruby
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honour, heart, several diamond arrows), 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 heart | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heart | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 heart | det |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heart | acl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ruby | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ruby | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ruby | nummod |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ruby | amod |
| 10 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 surrounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 surrounded | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 14 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heart | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 arrows | case |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 arrows | amod |
| 17 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrows | compound |
| 18 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pierced | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pierced | cc |
| 21 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heart | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 pierced | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | honour | a heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut out | participle | a heart not said here | one huge ruby | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ruby=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | surround | past · passive | several diamond arrows | a heart not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pierce | participle | honour not said here | by one | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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