The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 108
In the midst of all the noise and rejoicing Labakan slipped off with his little box under his arm.
Who acts: midst · What happens: rejoice, slip off · To what, where: Labakan, arm
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midst), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 noise | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 noise | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rejoicing | cc |
| 9 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 noise | conj |
| 10 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rejoicing | obj |
| 11 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 slipped | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 box | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 box | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 box | amod |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | obl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arm | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | gerund | the midst of all noise not said here | Labakan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip off | past | the midst of all noise | midst's arm | with midst's little box | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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