The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 70
At this sound the donkey raised her head and shook her ears, and turned towards the ox.
Who acts: donkey · What happens: raise, shake, turn · To what, where: head, sound, ears, ox
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sound | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 donkey | det |
| 5 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | nsubj |
| 6 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 raised | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shook | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 raised | conj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 ox | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ox | det |
| 18 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the donkey | plenty's head | this sound | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at sound=Destination | |||
| 2 | shake | past | the donkey not said here | plenty's ears | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the donkey not said here | the ox | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards ox=Trajectory |
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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