The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 51
He sat down and dined, and then went into a bedroom.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: sit down, dine, go · To what, where: bedroom
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dined | cc |
| 5 | dined | dine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 went | advmod |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 bedroom | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bedroom | det |
| 12 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | dinner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dine | past | dinner not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | dinner not said here | a bedroom | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bedroom=Initial_Location |
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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