The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 84
So Thuggai asked him, and Guddhu stripped some pieces of bark off a tree, and placed them on top of the smouldering ashes.
Who acts: Thuggai, Guddhu · What happens: ask, strip, place · To what, where: father, pieces, tree, top
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thuggai, Guddhu), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Thuggai | Thuggai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stripped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stripped | cc |
| 7 | Guddhu | Guddhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stripped | nsubj |
| 8 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 pieces | det |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stripped | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bark | case |
| 12 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pieces | nmod |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stripped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 placed | cc |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 placed | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ashes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ashes | det |
| 24 | smouldering | smouldering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ashes | compound |
| 25 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 top | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Thuggai | father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | strip | past | Guddhu | some pieces of bark | a tree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme off tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | place | past | Thuggai not said here | pieces = piece | top of the smouldering ashes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on top=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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