The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 20
Again and again he struck at her with his claws, but the donkey could bite too, as well as the lion, who was very weak after his illness, and at last a well-planted kick knocked him right over, and he rolled on the floor, groaning with pain.
Who acts: lion, donkey, last · What happens: strike, bite, be, plant, knock, roll · To what, where: lion, floor
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, donkey, last), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 5 struck | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Again | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 claws | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 claws | nmod:poss |
| 10 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bite | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bite | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 donkey | det |
| 14 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bite | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bite | aux |
| 16 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 struck | conj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 bite | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lion | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 lion | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lion | det |
| 23 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bite | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 weak | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 weak | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 weak | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 weak | advmod |
| 28 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lion | conj |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 illness | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 illness | nmod:poss |
| 31 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 weak | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 knocked | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 knocked | cc |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 last | case |
| 35 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 knocked | nsubj:outer |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 kick | det |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 planted | advmod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 well | punct |
| 39 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 kick | amod |
| 40 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 last | obl |
| 41 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 knocked | obj |
| 43 | right | right | ADV | _ | 44 over | advmod |
| 44 | over | over | ADV | _ | 41 knocked | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 rolled | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 rolled | cc |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 rolled | nsubj |
| 48 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | parataxis |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 floor | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 floor | det |
| 51 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rolled | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 groaning | punct |
| 53 | groaning | groan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 rolled | advcl |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 pain | case |
| 55 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 groaning | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | lion | again | at donkey; with lion's claws | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at she=Patient with claw=Instrument | |||
| 2 | bite | could | the donkey | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the lion | after lion's illness | weak property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | plant | participle | well property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | knock | past | last | lion | over property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 6 | roll | past | lion | the floor | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | groan | gerund | lion not said here | with pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=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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