The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 31
And he gave Quick-ear a slap with his paw, for he was young and needed to be taught sense.
Who acts: master · What happens: give, be, need, teach · To what, where: Quick ear, sense
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ear | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Quick | punct |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 slap | det |
| 8 | slap | slap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 paw | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 paw | nmod:poss |
| 11 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 young | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 young | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 young | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 young | cop |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 needed | cc |
| 18 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 taught | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 taught | aux:pass |
| 21 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 needed | xcomp |
| 22 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taught | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | master | Quick ear | with master's paw | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ear=Recipient slap=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | master | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | past | master not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | master not said here | sense | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: sense=Recipient |
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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