The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 45
The next morning, as he was getting near Madrid, he passed a large chestnut tree, in whose branches the wind was caught and entangled.
Who acts: King · What happens: get, pass, catch, entangle · To what, where: next morning, Madrid, large chestnut tree, wind, branches
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 getting | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 getting | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 getting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 getting | aux |
| 8 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 morning | acl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 Madrid | case |
| 10 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 getting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 16 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 caught | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 branches | case |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 branches | nmod:poss |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 caught | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | aux:pass |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 passed | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 entangled | cc |
| 27 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 caught | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | King | the next morning not said here | Madrid | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morning=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pass | past | King | a large chestnut tree | morning | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | catch | past · passive | the wind | branches | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | entangle | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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