The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 105
He went down perches and perches, while it was as dark about him as if he was in a big pot with a cover on.
Who acts: youngest, rope · What happens: go down, perch, be · To what, where: big pot
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, rope), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | perches | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 perches | cc |
| 6 | perches | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 dark | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dark | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dark | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 dark | case |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 perches | advcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dark | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 pot | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 pot | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pot | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pot | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pot | amod |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dark | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 cover | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cover | det |
| 25 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pot | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 cover | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | youngest = young | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | perch | present | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | perch | present | youngest = young not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | rope | about youngest = young; dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | youngest = young | a big pot and a cover | tree rules |
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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