The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 44

‘The rest of the year there are other porters, and among them Pennpingyon, who goes upon his head to save his feet.’

Who acts: other porters, Pennpingyon · What happens: be, go, save · To what, where: rest, head, feet

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other porters, Pennpingyon), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 rest	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 are	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 porters	amod
10	porters	porter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 are	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 goes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 goes	cc
13	among	among	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Pennpingyon	obl
15	Pennpingyon	Pennpingyon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 goes	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 goes	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 goes	nsubj
18	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 are	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 goes	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 save	mark
23	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 goes	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 save	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 are	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	other porters	the rest of the year	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present	Pennpingyon		porter's head	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon head=Location
3	save	to-infinitive	Pennpingyon not said here	porter's feet		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme

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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