The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 26
They had hardly taken a couple of spoonfuls when they all fell down dead, for the poison had passed from the horse to the raven and so into the broth.
Who acts: murderers, poison · What happens: take, fall down, pass · To what, where: couple, raven
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (murderers, poison), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 couple | det |
| 6 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spoonfuls | case |
| 8 | spoonfuls | spoonful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 couple | nmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 fell | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 fell | advmod |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 fell | compound:prt |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 passed | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 passed | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 poison | det |
| 18 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 passed | aux |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 fell | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 raven | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 raven | det |
| 26 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 broth | cc |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 broth | advmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 broth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 broth | det |
| 31 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | murderers = murderer | a couple of spoonfuls | hardly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall down | past | murderers = murderer | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | the poison | the raven | from the horse | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from horse=Initial_Location to raven=Destination |
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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