The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 97
Then they cried for a little on each other’s necks, and Houarn started for the mountains.
Who acts: bells, Houarn · What happens: cry, start · To what, where: necks
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells, Houarn), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 little | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cried | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 necks | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 necks | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 other | case |
| 11 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 started | cc |
| 14 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 started | nsubj |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountains | det |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 started | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | bells = bell | each other's necks | then | for a little | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | ||
| 2 | start | past | Houarn | for the mountains | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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