The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 79
The children stood quite silent, but only for a moment, and then they shouted again, and danced round the tree, and snatched off one present after another.
Who acts: children · What happens: stand, shout, dance, snatch off · To what, where: tree, one present
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 (children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 silent | advmod |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moment | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 moment | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 moment | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shouted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shouted | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 shouted | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shouted | nsubj |
| 16 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 shouted | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 danced | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 danced | cc |
| 20 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 shouted | conj |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 danced | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 snatched | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 snatched | cc |
| 26 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 snatched | compound:prt |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 present | nummod |
| 29 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 snatched | obj |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 another | case |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 snatched | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the children | moment | silent property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | children = child | then; again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dance | participle | children = child not said here | the tree | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | snatch off | past | one present | after another | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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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