The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 38
Father Gatto purred loudly with satisfaction.
Who acts: Father · What happens: purr
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 purred | nsubj |
| 2 | Gatto | Gatto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | purred | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 purred | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 satisfaction | case |
| 6 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purred | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 purred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | past | Father | with satisfaction; loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with satisfaction=Theme |
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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