The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 57

Time passed on, and one morning Gon lay before the house door, basking in the sun. He looked lazily at the world stretched out before him, and saw in the distance a big ruffian of a cat teasing and ill-treating quite a little one.

Who acts: Gon, big ruffian · What happens: pass on, lie, bask, look, stretch out, see · To what, where: house door, sun., world, little one

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 (Gon, big ruffian), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl:unmarked
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 passed	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lay	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 morning	nummod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl:unmarked
8	Gon	Gon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	parataxis
10	before	before	ADP	_	13 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 basking	punct
15	basking	bask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lay	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sun.	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun.	det
18	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 basking	obl
19	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sun.	acl:relcl
21	lazily	lazily	ADV	_	15 basking	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 basking	obl
25	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 world	acl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 stretched	compound:prt
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stretched	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saw	cc
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 distance	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 distance	det
34	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 ruffian	det
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ruffian	amod
37	ruffian	ruffian	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 distance	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 cat	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cat	det
40	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ruffian	nmod
41	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 ruffian	acl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 treating	cc
43	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 treating	amod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 ill	punct
45	treating	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 teasing	conj
46	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	49 one	det:predet
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 one	det
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 one	amod
49	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 treating	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	participle				time		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	Gon		the house door	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location
3	bask	gerund	Gon not said here		the sun.		at the world; lazily property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	look	past	Gon	the sun. not said here				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun.=Attribute
5	stretch out	participle		the world not said here		before Gon		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	see	past	Gon not said here				in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	tease	gerund	a big ruffian of a cat not said here					vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	treat	gerund	a big ruffian of a cat not said here	quite little one				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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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