The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 120
They sniffed at the fir-tree, and then crept between its boughs.
Who acts: Squeak · What happens: sniff, creep · To what, where: boughs
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Squeak), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sniffed | nsubj |
| 2 | sniffed | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 5 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fir | punct |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sniffed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crept | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 crept | advmod |
| 11 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sniffed | conj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 boughs | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boughs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crept | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sniffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sniff | past | Squeak | at the fir tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | Squeak not said here | ground's boughs | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between bough=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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