The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 58
Next morning Sigurd threw down the ball again and away it rolled for some time, till it stopped at the foot of another high rock.
Who acts: Sigurd, ball · What happens: throw down, roll, stop · To what, where: ball, foot
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, ball), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 ball | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 threw | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 away | cc |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 again | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rolled | nsubj |
| 12 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rolled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopped | punct |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 stopped | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stopped | nsubj |
| 19 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rolled | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 foot | det |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stopped | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rock | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 rock | det |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rock | amod |
| 26 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 foot | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | past | Sigurd | the ball | again; morning | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | |||
| 2 | roll | past | ball | time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | ball | the foot of another high rock | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
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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