The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 49
As the sun set she saw the same young man walking gaily down the path, and, as before, he pushed aside the rock and disappeared behind it.
Who acts: sun, same young man, man · What happens: set, see, walk, push, disappear · To what, where: same young man, path, rock, top
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, same young man, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 set | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pushed | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 11 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 man | acl |
| 12 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 11 walking | advmod |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 path | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 path | det |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pushed | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 before | case |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 pushed | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pushed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pushed | nsubj |
| 23 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 23 pushed | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rock | det |
| 26 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pushed | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 disappeared | cc |
| 28 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pushed | conj |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 disappeared | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | sun | the same young man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | the same young man not said here | the path | gaily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down path=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | push | past | man | the rock | aside, before property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | |||
| 5 | disappear | past | man not said here | top | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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