The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 30
So he took the stone, quickly changed it for a nut, and crack! it split open in a moment.
Who acts: bear, stone · What happens: take, change, crack, split · To what, where: stone
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, stone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 changed | advmod |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 changed | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 nut | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nut | det |
| 12 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crack | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crack | cc |
| 15 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 split | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 split | nsubj |
| 18 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 crack | advcl |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 split | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 split | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | bear | the stone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past | bear not said here | stone | for a nut; quickly property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for nut=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | crack | infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | split | past | stone | moment | open property | vn break-45.1 «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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