The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 10
They bit, and they fought with their fore legs and their hind legs, and sometimes the youth looked at them.
Who acts: stones, youth · What happens: bite, fight, look
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stones, youth), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bit | nsubj |
| 2 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fought | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fought | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fought | nsubj |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bit | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fore | fore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fought | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 legs | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 legs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 legs | amod |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 legs | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 looked | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bit | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | stones = stone | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | stones = stone | with stones's fore legs and stones's hind legs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with leg=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the youth | at stones = stone; sometimes property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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 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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