The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 44
He came springing towards them showing all his teeth, and Koma shrieked, and rushed up a cherry tree.
Who acts: ogre, wanderers, Koma · What happens: come, spring, show, shriek, rush up · To what, where: teeth, cherry tree
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, wanderers, Koma), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | springing | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 came | xcomp |
| 4 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 6 showing | mark |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 showing | nsubj |
| 6 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 springing | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 teeth | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 showing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shrieked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shrieked | cc |
| 12 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shrieked | nsubj |
| 13 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rushed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rushed | cc |
| 16 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 shrieked | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 rushed | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 19 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rushed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | ogre | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spring | gerund | ogre not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | gerund | wanderers = wanderer | ogre's teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | shriek | past | Koma | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 5 | rush up | participle | a cherry tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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