The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 43
After a bit he grew tired of cowboys and shepherds, and wondered if there was no one else to give him some sport.
Who acts: Puck, one · What happens: grow, wonder, be, give · To what, where: sport, Puck
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 (Puck, one), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 bit | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cowboys | case |
| 8 | cowboys | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tired | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shepherds | cc |
| 10 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cowboys | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wondered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wondered | cc |
| 13 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wondered | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | else | else | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | acl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 sport | det |
| 24 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Puck | after a bit | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | Puck not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | no one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | no one not said here | some sport | Puck | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sport=Theme |
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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