The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 105
Then he rolled up his trousers and his sleeves, and waded into the water crying:
Who acts: hawk · What happens: roll up, wade, cry · To what, where: trousers, water
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hawk), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rolled | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rolled | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sleeves | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trousers | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 waded | cc |
| 12 | waded | wade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waded | obl |
| 16 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 waded | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll up | past | hawk | hawk's trousers and hawk's sleeves | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=Agent | |||
| 2 | wade | past | hawk not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | hawk not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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