The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 83
He gathered up his things, and started to walk a little farther before resting.
Who acts: griffin · What happens: gather up, start, walk, rest · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin), 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 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 gathered | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 things | nmod:poss |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gathered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 started | cc |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 walk | mark |
| 10 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 started | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 farther | advmod |
| 13 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 walk | xcomp |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 resting | mark |
| 15 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 farther | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather up | past | griffin | griffin's things | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | griffin not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | griffin not said here | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rest | gerund | griffin not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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