The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 115
Brown people with long ears and thick lips, and hideously painted faces, hunted a yellow-spotted tiger among the high bamboos on the shore, and the tiger turned on them and stuck its claws into one of the brown men.
Who acts: Brown people, tiger · What happens: paint, hunt, spot, turn, stick · To what, where: spotted tiger, high bamboos, claws
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brown people, tiger), 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 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hunted | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 ears | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ears | amod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lips | cc |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lips | amod |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ears | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 faces | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 faces | cc |
| 11 | hideously | hideously | ADV | _ | 12 painted | advmod |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 faces | amod |
| 13 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 15 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tiger | det |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spotted | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 yellow | punct |
| 19 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tiger | amod |
| 20 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hunted | obj |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 bamboos | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bamboos | det |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bamboos | amod |
| 24 | bamboos | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hunted | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shore | det |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bamboos | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 turned | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 turned | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tiger | det |
| 31 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hunted | parataxis |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 turned | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stuck | cc |
| 36 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 turned | conj |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 claws | nmod:poss |
| 38 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 stuck | obj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 one | case |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 stuck | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 men | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 men | det |
| 43 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 men | amod |
| 44 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 one | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | hideously property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hunt | past | Brown people with long ears and thick lips and painted faces | a spotted tiger | the high bamboos on the shore | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme among bamboo=Location | |||
| 3 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 4 | turn | past | the tiger | on people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | stick | past | the tiger not said here | shore's claws | into one of the brown men | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent claw=Theme into one=Destination |
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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