The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 33
Aveline, delighted at the success of her first experiment, hobbled along after him, chattering all the while, as old women do.
Who acts: Aveline, old women · What happens: hobble, chatter, do, experiment
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aveline, old women), 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 | Aveline | Aveline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hobbled | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Aveline | amod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 success | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 success | det |
| 6 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 delighted | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 experiment | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 experiment | nmod:poss |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 experiment | amod |
| 10 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 success | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aveline | punct |
| 12 | hobbled | hobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 hobbled | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hobbled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chattering | punct |
| 17 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hobbled | advcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 while | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 while | det |
| 20 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chattering | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 women | amod |
| 24 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 do | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 chattering | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hobbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hobble | past | Aveline | after king | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | chatter | gerund | Aveline not said here | while | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | present | old women | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | experiment | Aveline | nom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=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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