The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 108

It came waddling in by the drain, and went up to the dog, which was lying on the hearth-stone.

Who acts: great many, dog · What happens: come, waddle, go up, lie · To what, where: hearth stone

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great many, dog), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	waddling	waddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 came	xcomp
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 waddling	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 drain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drain	det
7	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waddling	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 dog	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lying	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lying	aux
18	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dog	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 stone	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stone	det
21	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stone	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 hearth	punct
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lying	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	great many = many			tree rules
2	waddle	gerund	great many = many not said here		by the drain	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by drain=Trajectory
3	go up	past	great many = many not said here		to the dog	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lie	past · progressive	the dog	the hearth stone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location

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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