The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 38
She then came to him, dragging a shaggy little grey ass with long ears.
Who acts: princess · What happens: come, drag · To what, where: voice, shaggy little grey ass
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragging | punct |
| 7 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ass | det |
| 9 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ass | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ass | amod |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ass | amod |
| 12 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragging | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ears | case |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ears | amod |
| 15 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dragging | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | princess | voice | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | drag | gerund | princess not said here | a shaggy little grey ass | with long ears | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=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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