The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 30
He walked gaily towards the enclosure, threw off, Big Lion’s skin, and sang and danced as before--
Who acts: father · What happens: walk, throw off, sing, dance · To what, where: skin, enclosure
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 enclosure | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 enclosure | det |
| 6 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 threw | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 skin | punct |
| 11 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lion | compound |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Lion | case |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sang | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sang | cc |
| 17 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 danced | cc |
| 19 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sang | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 before | case |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 danced | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | father | Big Lion's skin | the enclosure | gaily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards enclosure=Destination | ||
| 2 | throw off | past | father not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | dance | past | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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