The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 20
But Little Lasse did not trouble his head with such things; he gathered together his boats and walked up the shore back to the house.
Who acts: Little Lasse, Lasse · What happens: do, gather, walk up · To what, where: trouble, boats, shore
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Lasse, Lasse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lasse | amod |
| 3 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 trouble | advmod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trouble | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trouble | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gathered | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gathered | nsubj |
| 14 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 gathered | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 boats | nmod:poss |
| 17 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gathered | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walked | cc |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gathered | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 walked | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Little Lasse | trouble | with such things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | gather | past | Lasse | Lasse's boats | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 3 | walk up | past | Lasse not said here | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Trajectory |
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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