The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 60
Then the boy slipped from behind them out of the cold cave into the air, and he laughed aloud.
Who acts: boy · What happens: slip, laugh · To what, where: cold cave
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | 4 slipped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slipped | nsubj |
| 4 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slipped | obl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cave | amod |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slipped | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cave | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laughed | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laughed | nsubj |
| 19 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slipped | conj |
| 20 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 19 laughed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | the boy | the cold cave into the air | then | from women = woman | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from they=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | laugh | past | boy | aloud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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