The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 89
He stopped and looked back; and another stone was added to the number.
Who acts: man · What happens: stop, look back, add · To what, where: stone
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 added | cc |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 added | aux:pass |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stopped | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 number | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look back | past | man not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past · passive | another stone | to the number | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to number=Co-Patient |
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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