The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 60
And they rubbed their heads and their noses again and again, while their purring might have been heard a mile off.
Who acts: Heart · What happens: rub, hear off · To what, where: heads, purring
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 (Heart), 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 rubbed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rubbed | nsubj |
| 3 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rubbed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 noses | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 noses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heads | conj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 rubbed | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 again | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 again | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 heard | mark |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 purring | nmod:poss |
| 15 | purring | purring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 heard | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 heard | aux:pass |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rubbed | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mile | det |
| 21 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 heard | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | Heart | Heart's heads and Heart's noses | again | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear off | might · perfect · passive | Heart's purring | a mile obl:unmarked | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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