The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 90
Then he took Simon’s pipe and blew into it with all his might, in the hopes of calling his wife back to life.
Who acts: rogue, hopes · What happens: take, blow, call · To what, where: pipe, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (rogue, hopes), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Simon | case |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blew | cc |
| 8 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 blew | obl |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 might | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 might | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 might | nmod:poss |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 blew | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hopes | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hopes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hopes | det |
| 18 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blew | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 calling | mark |
| 20 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 hopes | acl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calling | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 calling | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | rogue | Simon's pipe | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme | |||
| 2 | blow | past | rogue not said here | pipe | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into it=Product | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | the hopes not said here | rogue's wife | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |
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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