The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 90
The beggar scrambled to his feet, and without a pause walked quickly down the road that led northwards.
Who acts: beggar, pause, road · What happens: scramble, walk, lead · To what, where: feet, road
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 (beggar, pause, road), 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 | 2 beggar | det |
| 2 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scrambled | nsubj |
| 3 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scrambled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 pause | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pause | det |
| 11 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scrambled | conj |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 led | nsubj |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 road | acl:relcl |
| 19 | northwards | northwards | ADV | _ | 18 led | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble | past | the beggar | sky's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | a pause | the road | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down road=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lead | past | the road | northwards property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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