The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 15
But the snoring still continued, and he went on with his work as quickly as he could.
Who acts: snoring · What happens: continue, go on, work
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snoring), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 continued | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snoring | det |
| 3 | snoring | snoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 continued | advmod |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 work | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 quickly | advmod |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 quickly | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the snoring | still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | snoring | with snoring's work; quickly property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work | snoring | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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