The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 111
“As the apparition left off speaking my dog pricked up his ears and began to bark.
What happens: leave off, speak, prick up, begin, bark · To what, where: apparition, dog, ears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pricked | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 apparition | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 apparition | det |
| 4 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pricked | obl |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 apparition | acl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 left | compound:prt |
| 7 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 left | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dog | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speaking | obj |
| 10 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 pricked | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pricked | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pricked | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bark | mark |
| 17 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off in a quote | participle | the apparition not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | gerund | my dog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prick up in a quote | past | dog's ears | as the apparition | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | begin in a quote | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | bark in a quote | to-infinitive | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP 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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