The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 108
But in his hurry to enter he touched with his hand the spike of hurt, and sank down where he stood, wrapped in slumber.
Who acts: robber, hurt · What happens: enter, touch, sink down, stand, wrap, hurry · To what, where: spike, hurry, slumber
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, hurt), 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 | _ | 8 touched | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hurry | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hurry | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 enter | mark |
| 6 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurry | acl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spike | det |
| 13 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hurt | case |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spike | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sank | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sank | cc |
| 18 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 sank | compound:prt |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 stood | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sank | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrapped | punct |
| 24 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 stood | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 slumber | case |
| 26 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wrapped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | to-infinitive | robber not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | touch | past | robber | the spike of hurt | robber's hurry | with robber's hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spike=Experiencer with hand=Instrument | ||
| 3 | sink down | past | robber not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | robber | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wrap | participle | robber not said here | slumber | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in slumber=Destination | ||||
| 6 | hurry | robber | nom hurry «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | spike | hurt | nom spike «event intransitive»: of=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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