The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 34
He quite thought something moved away there in the ditch.
Who acts: Walter, something · What happens: think, move away · To what, where: ditch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Walter, something), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 moved | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ditch | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ditch | det |
| 10 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Walter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move away | past | something | the ditch; there | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in ditch=Trajectory |
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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