The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 159
It did not heed the warm sun and the fresh air, or notice the little peasant children who ran about chattering when they came out to gather wild strawberries and raspberries.
Who acts: air, little peasant children, companions · What happens: not heed, notice, run, chatter, come out, gather · To what, where: warm sun, little peasant children, wild strawberries
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, little peasant children, companions), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heed | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heed | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 heed | advmod |
| 4 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sun | amod |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 air | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 air | amod |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sun | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 notice | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 notice | cc |
| 14 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 children | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 children | amod |
| 17 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 children | amod |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 notice | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 children | acl:relcl |
| 21 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 22 chattering | mark |
| 22 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 ran | advcl |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 came | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 chattering | ccomp |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 gather | mark |
| 28 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | advcl |
| 29 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 strawberries | amod |
| 30 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gather | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 raspberries | cc |
| 32 | raspberries | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 strawberries | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not heed | past · do-support | air | the warm sun and the fresh air | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | infinitive | air not said here | the little peasant children | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the little peasant children | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | chatter | gerund | the little peasant children not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come out | past | companions = companion | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | gather | to-infinitive | companions = companion not said here | wild strawberries and raspberries | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=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 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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