The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 32
There they gathered their dogs round them, and hunted for a year as before.
Who acts: shoes · What happens: gather, hunt · To what, where: dogs
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 gathered | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gathered | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gathered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hunted | cc |
| 10 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gathered | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunted | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 before | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 hunted | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | shoes = shoe | shoes's dogs | there | round dogs = dog | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||
| 2 | hunt | participle | shoes = shoe not said here | year | before property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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