The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 6
Being very cunning, however, he made no resistance, and rolled over as if he were as dead as the other men.
Who acts: stroke · What happens: be, make, roll over · To what, where: resistance
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: who acts (stroke), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cunning | cop |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 cunning | advmod |
| 3 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cunning | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 resistance | det |
| 10 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rolled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rolled | cc |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 made | parataxis |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 rolled | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 dead | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 dead | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 dead | advmod |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rolled | advcl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 men | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 men | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 men | amod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dead | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cunning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | cunning property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | stroke | no resistance | however property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resistance=Product | |||
| 3 | roll over | participle | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | stroke | as the other men; dead property | tree rules |
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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