The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 21
But now they arched their heads, and pawed the ground with their slender legs as they had been wont to do in days long gone by.
Who acts: wars · What happens: arch, paw, be, do, go by · To what, where: heads, ground, days
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wars), 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 | _ | 4 arched | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arched | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arched | nsubj |
| 4 | arched | arch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pawed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pawed | cc |
| 9 | pawed | paw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arched | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pawed | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 legs | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 legs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 legs | amod |
| 15 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pawed | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 wont | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wont | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wont | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 wont | cop |
| 20 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pawed | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wont | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 do | obl |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 gone | advmod |
| 26 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 days | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 gone | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arch | past | wars = war | wars's heads | now | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | paw | past | wars = war not said here | the ground | with wars's slender legs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Patient with leg=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | wars = war | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | wars = war not said here | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go by | participle | days not said here | long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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