The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 149
Joy filled the heart of the Gruagach when he saw him coming, and without waiting to talk they played their game.
Who acts: Joy, King, mane · What happens: fill, see, come, wait, talk, play · To what, where: heart, King, game
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joy, King, mane), 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 | Joy | Joy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heart | det |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Gruagach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Gruagach | det |
| 7 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waiting | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waiting | cc |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 waiting | mark |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 coming | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 talk | mark |
| 18 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 waiting | advcl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 played | nsubj |
| 20 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 talk | ccomp |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 game | nmod:poss |
| 22 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 played | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Joy | the heart of the Gruagach | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Joy | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | King not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | King not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | talk | to-infinitive | King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | play | past | mane | mane's game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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