The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 9
But before he reached the park, he went into a traktir (or tavern), and there he spent the whole night in revelry.
Who acts: Norka · What happens: reach, go, spend · To what, where: park, traktir, revelry
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 (Norka), 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 | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 park | det |
| 6 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 traktir | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 traktir | det |
| 12 | traktir | traktir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 tavern | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 tavern | cc |
| 15 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 traktir | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 tavern | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spent | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spent | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 spent | expl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spent | nsubj |
| 21 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 night | amod |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spent | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 revelry | case |
| 26 | revelry | revelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Norka | the park | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent park=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Norka | a traktir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into traktir=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | spend | past | Norka | revelry; there | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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 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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