The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 62
Paperarello bowed, fastened the ear inside his surcoat and rode away.
Who acts: Paperarello · What happens: bow, fasten, ride away · To what, where: ear, surcoat
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paperarello), 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 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fastened | punct |
| 4 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ear | det |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fastened | obj |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 surcoat | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 surcoat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | surcoat | surcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fastened | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 rode | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | Paperarello | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fasten | past | Paperarello not said here | the ear | knight's surcoat | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | |||
| 3 | ride away | past | Paperarello not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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