The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 103
So Peter went in and warmed himself and ate and drank, till suddenly the dog began to howl.
Who acts: Peter, dog · What happens: go in, warm, eat, drink, begin, howl · To what, where: Peter
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, dog), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 warmed | cc |
| 6 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 warmed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ate | cc |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 warmed | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drank | cc |
| 11 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ate | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 began | mark |
| 14 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 began | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drank | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 howl | mark |
| 19 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | Peter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | warm | past | Peter not said here | Peter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | Peter not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | past | Peter not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | the dog | suddenly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | howl | to-infinitive | the dog not said here | 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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