The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 14
And he sat down on her doorstep and set about patching them.
Who acts: Sicilianische · What happens: sit down, set, patch · To what, where: doorstep, shoes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sicilianische), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 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 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 doorstep | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 doorstep | nmod:poss |
| 7 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 patching | mark |
| 11 | patching | patch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 set | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 patching | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Sicilianische | pair's doorstep | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on doorstep=Location | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Sicilianische not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | patch | gerund | Sicilianische not said here | shoes = shoe | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
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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