The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 56
With these words he swung the bag over his back, and disappeared without as much as looking at the children again.
Who acts: Curse · What happens: swing, disappear, look · To what, where: bag, back
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Curse), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swung | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swung | nsubj |
| 5 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappeared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappeared | cc |
| 13 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swung | conj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 much | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 disappeared | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 looking | mark |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 disappeared | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 children | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 children | det |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 looking | obl |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 looking | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | Curse | the bag | Curse's back | with this words | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bag=Theme over back=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | disappear | past | Curse not said here | without much | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Curse not said here | again | at the children | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme |
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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