The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 49
So poor little Koma was left alone, while Gon was borne away full of trouble, not in the least knowing what to do.
What happens: leave, bear away, know, do · To what, where: poor little Koma, Gon, least
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Koma | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Koma | amod |
| 4 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 borne | mark |
| 10 | Gon | Gon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 borne | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 borne | aux:pass |
| 12 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 left | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 borne | advmod |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 borne | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 trouble | case |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 least | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 least | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 least | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 least | det |
| 21 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 borne | obl |
| 22 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 least | advcl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 do | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 knowing | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | poor little Koma | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear away | past · passive | Gon | the least | away, full property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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