The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 29
The squirrel did as he was asked, and the sledge moved slowly along.
Who acts: squirrel, sledge · What happens: do, ask, move · To what, where: squirrel
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squirrel, sledge), 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 | 2 squirrel | det |
| 2 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 asked | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | aux:pass |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moved | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sledge | det |
| 11 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the squirrel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | squirrel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | move | past | the sledge | along, slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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