The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 108
Then they wheeled round and kicked him till they could kick no more.
Who acts: groans · What happens: wheel round, kick · To what, where: giant, more
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groans), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wheeled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wheeled | nsubj |
| 3 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 wheeled | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kicked | cc |
| 6 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wheeled | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kicked | obj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 kick | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kick | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kick | aux |
| 11 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kicked | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 kick | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wheeled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wheel round | past | groans = groan | then | round property | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | kick | past | groans = groan not said here | giant | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kick | could | groans = groan | more | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
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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