The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 7
He swam up and he swam down, and thought it was pleasant to let himself drive with the stream.
Who acts: troll, it · What happens: swim up, swim down, think, be, let, drive · To what, where: troll · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, it), 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 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 swam | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 swam | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 swam | nsubj |
| 6 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swam | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 swam | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swam | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pleasant | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pleasant | cop |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 let | mark |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pleasant | xcomp |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 stream | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stream | det |
| 20 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drive | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim up | past | troll | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swim down | past | troll | down property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | troll not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | it | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let | to-infinitive | troll | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | drive | infinitive | troll not said here | with the stream | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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