The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 76
And she hobbled off grumbling and growling.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: hobble off, grumble, growl
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hobbled | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hobbled | nsubj |
| 3 | hobbled | hobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 hobbled | compound:prt |
| 5 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hobbled | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 growling | cc |
| 7 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 grumbling | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hobbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hobble off | past | Queen | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grumble speech: other | gerund | Queen not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | growl | gerund | Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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