The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 120
As he sat there his daughter came up out of the mound, and invited him to come inside, which he did very willingly.
Who acts: man, daughter · What happens: sit, come up, invite, come, do · To what, where: mound, man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, daughter), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 mound | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mound | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mound | det |
| 12 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 invited | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 invited | cc |
| 15 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 invited | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 invited | xcomp |
| 19 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 did | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | advcl |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 willingly | advmod |
| 25 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 23 did | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | man | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | man's daughter | the mound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out mound=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | invite | past | man not said here | man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | inside property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past | man | willingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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