The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 87
But he thrust the Terrible Head into his wallet, and flew away without looking behind.
Who acts: boy · What happens: thrust, fly away, look · To what, where: Terrible Head, wallet
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 thrust | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrust | nsubj |
| 3 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Head | det |
| 5 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Head | amod |
| 6 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrust | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 wallet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrust | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrust | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 looking | mark |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 flew | advcl |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 15 looking | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | past | boy | the Terrible Head | boy's wallet | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly away | past | boy not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | boy not said here | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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