The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 72
Then came the big Red Ant skipping along his body, and then Pivi shook himself all over.
Who acts: big Red Ant, Pivi · What happens: come, skip, shake · To what, where: body, Ant
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big Red Ant, Pivi), 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 | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ant | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Ant | amod |
| 5 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Ant | amod |
| 6 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 7 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 body | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skipping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shook | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shook | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 shook | advmod |
| 14 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shook | nsubj |
| 15 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 shook | obj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 over | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 shook | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the big Red Ant | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | skip | gerund | the big Red Ant not said here | Ant's body | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along body=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | Pivi | Ant | then | over property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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