The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 146
As they came back they met the shoemaker, and stared at him with open mouths.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: come back, meet, stare · To what, where: shoemaker
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 (robbers), 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 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoemaker | det |
| 8 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stared | cc |
| 11 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stared | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 mouths | case |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouths | amod |
| 16 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stared | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | robbers = robber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | robbers = robber | the shoemaker | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | stare | past | robbers = robber not said here | at swineherd; with open mouths | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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