The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 4
Ivan and Marie watched them, the while thinking about many things.
Who acts: Ivan, while · What happens: watch, think · To what, where: children
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 (Ivan, while), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Marie | cc |
| 3 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ivan | conj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 while | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obl |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 while | acl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thinking | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Ivan and Marie | children = child | while | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | the while not said here | about many things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic |
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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