The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 29
But when his servants did so, they found the room empty, and the frozen breath laughed aloud.
Who acts: servants, frozen breath · What happens: do, find, freeze, laugh · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (servants, frozen breath), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 did | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 servants | nmod:poss |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laughed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laughed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 breath | det |
| 16 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 breath | amod |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laughed | nsubj |
| 18 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 19 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 18 laughed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Magician's servants | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | servants = servant | the room | empty property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic | |||
| 3 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | laugh | past | the frozen breath | aloud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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