The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 32

The Shifty Lad smiled as he heard him, and, picking up the shoe, he crept round by a short way and laid the other shoe on the path.

Who acts: Shifty Lad, Lad, man · What happens: smile, hear, pick up, creep, lay · To what, where: man, shoe, other shoe, path

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shifty Lad, Lad, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lad	det
2	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Lad	amod
3	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 smiled	nsubj
4	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 heard	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smiled	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crept	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crept	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 picking	punct
12	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 crept	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 picking	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shoe	det
15	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picking	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 picking	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crept	nsubj
18	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smiled	conj
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 crept	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 way	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crept	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laid	cc
25	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smiled	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shoe	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shoe	amod
28	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laid	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 path	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 path	det
31	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laid	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smile	past	the Shifty Lad				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	past	Lad	man			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	pick up	gerund	man not said here	the shoe			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic
4	creep	past	man			by a short way; round property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Trajectory
5	lay	past	the Shifty Lad not said here	the other shoe	the path		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme on path=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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