The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 107
Peter took them and put them into his bag, and waving his thanks for her kindness, he was off like the wind.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: take off, put, wave · To what, where: horses, bag, thanks
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), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bag | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bag | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waving | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 waving | cc |
| 12 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waving | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 kindness | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waving | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 off | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 off | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 off | cop |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 wind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wind | det |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Peter | horses = horse | like the wind | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Peter not said here | horses = horse | Peter's bag | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 3 | wave | gerund | Peter not said here | Peter's thanks | for woman's kindness | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Patient |
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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