The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 43
Then Moti started off one early spring morning with his thick staff over his shoulder, singing gaily to himself as he walked along.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: start off, sing, walk
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 (Moti), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 started | advmod |
| 2 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 morning | nummod |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 morning | compound |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 staff | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 staff | nmod:poss |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 staff | amod |
| 12 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 morning | nmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staff | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 singing | punct |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 started | advcl |
| 18 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 singing | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 gaily | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 walked | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 walked | nsubj |
| 23 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 singing | advcl |
| 24 | along | along | ADV | _ | 23 walked | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | Moti | then; morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morning=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | Moti not said here | gaily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | Moti | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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