The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 113
Then the Shifty Lad entered the room and picked up a big handful of nuts, and returned to the loft, where the Black Rogue was still sleeping.
Who acts: Shifty Lad, Black Rogue · What happens: enter, pick up, return, sleep · To what, where: room, big handful
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shifty Lad, Black Rogue), 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 | 5 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lad | det |
| 3 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lad | amod |
| 4 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 picked | cc |
| 9 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 entered | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 picked | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 handful | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 handful | amod |
| 13 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picked | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 nuts | case |
| 15 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 handful | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 returned | cc |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 loft | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 loft | det |
| 21 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sleeping | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 sleeping | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Rogue | det |
| 25 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rogue | compound |
| 26 | Rogue | Rogue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sleeping | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sleeping | aux |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 sleeping | advmod |
| 29 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 loft | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the Shifty Lad | the room | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||
| 2 | pick up | participle | the Shifty Lad not said here | a big handful of nuts | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Topic | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the Shifty Lad not said here | to the loft result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to loft=Result | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past · progressive | the Black Rogue | still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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