The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 72
With these words the beautiful Hyacinthia stamped on the ground with her little foot, and the earth opened and they both sank down into the lower world.
Who acts: beautiful Hyacinthia, earth, feet · What happens: stamp, open, sink down · To what, where: ground, lower world
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Hyacinthia, earth, feet), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stamped | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hyacinthia | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Hyacinthia | amod |
| 6 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stamped | nsubj |
| 7 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stamped | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foot | amod |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stamped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 opened | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opened | nsubj |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stamped | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sank | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sank | nsubj |
| 22 | both | both | ADV | _ | 23 sank | advmod |
| 23 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opened | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 sank | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 27 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 world | amod |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sank | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | the beautiful Hyacinthia | the ground | with this words; with Hyacinthia's little foot | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | open | past | the earth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sink down | past | feet = foot | the lower world | both, down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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 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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