The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 108
Matte heard nothing more as he sat and rowed the heavy boat, while thinking of his cracked pipe and the fine tobacco.
Who acts: Matte, fish · What happens: hear, sit, row, think, crack · To what, where: nothing, heavy boat
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matte, fish), 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 | Matte | matte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 heard | obj |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 heard | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 sat | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rowed | cc |
| 9 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boat | amod |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rowed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 thinking | mark |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rowed | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pipe | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 pipe | amod |
| 19 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thinking | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tobacco | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tobacco | det |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tobacco | amod |
| 23 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pipe | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Matte | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | fish | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | row | past | fish not said here | the heavy boat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Location | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | fish not said here | of fish's cracked pipe and the fine tobacco | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | crack | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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