The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 48
She crawled up after him, and when she got inside there was a beautiful little boy on his knees, and he kissing and hugging him.
Who acts: eagle, sun · What happens: crawl up, get, be, kiss, hug · To what, where: beautiful little boy, knees, sun
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, sun), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crawled | nsubj |
| 2 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 crawled | compound:prt |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crawled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 got | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 boy | csubj |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 got | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 boy | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boy | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boy | amod |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crawled | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 knees | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 knees | nmod:poss |
| 20 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 boy | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kissing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kissing | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kissing | nsubj |
| 24 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 crawled | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hugging | cc |
| 26 | hugging | hug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 kissing | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hugging | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl up | past | eagle | after sun | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | eagle | there | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a beautiful little boy | sun's knees | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kiss | gerund | sun | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hug | gerund | sun not said here | sun | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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