The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 40
On they came, bent a little forward, the tallest of them all at their head, breaking everything that stood in their way.
Who acts: wallets · What happens: come, bend, break, stand · To what, where: little, everything, way
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wallets), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 breaking | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bent | punct |
| 5 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bent | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 7 little | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tallest | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tallest | det |
| 11 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 came | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tallest | nmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 all | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 breaking | punct |
| 19 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 breaking | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 everything | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 breaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | wallets = wallet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bend | past | wallets = wallet not said here | a little | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break | gerund | everything | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Patient | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | wallets's way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
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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