The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 97
So he got up again, and made his way round through the wood, pushing by trees, scrambling over rocks, wading through streams, till at last he was on flat ground again, close to the mouth of the cavern.
Who acts: rock · What happens: get up, make, push, scramble, wade, be · To what, where: way, wood, rocks, streams, flat ground
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 (rock), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pushing | punct |
| 16 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 made | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pushing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scrambling | punct |
| 20 | scrambling | scramble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 pushing | advcl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 rocks | case |
| 22 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scrambling | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wading | punct |
| 24 | wading | wade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 scrambling | conj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 streams | case |
| 26 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wading | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ground | punct |
| 28 | till | till | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 30 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ground | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ground | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 ground | cop |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 ground | case |
| 34 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ground | amod |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 ground | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 close | punct |
| 38 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ground | amod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 mouth | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mouth | det |
| 41 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 close | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 cavern | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 cavern | det |
| 44 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 mouth | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | rock | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | past | rock not said here | rock's way | the wood | round property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | ||
| 3 | push | gerund | rock not said here | by trees | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | scramble | gerund | rock not said here | rocks | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | wade | gerund | rock not said here | streams | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through stream=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | is | past | rock | flat ground | till last; again | tree rules |
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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