The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 82
The Roe was petted and caressed, and ran about at will in the palace gardens.
What happens: pet, caress, run about · To what, where: Roe, palace gardens
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Roe | det |
| 2 | Roe | Roe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 petted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 petted | aux:pass |
| 4 | petted | pet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 caressed | cc |
| 6 | caressed | caress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 petted | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 petted | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 will | case |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 gardens | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gardens | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gardens | compound |
| 16 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ran | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 petted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pet | past · passive | the Roe | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | caress | participle | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | run about | past | the palace gardens | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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