The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 114
Peppe only tossed his head and went on his way till he got to the castle, where he knocked at the door.
Who acts: Peppe, man · What happens: toss, go, get, knock · To what, where: head, way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppe, man), 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 | Peppe | Peppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tossed | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 tossed | advmod |
| 3 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tossed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tossed | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 got | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knocked | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 knocked | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knocked | nsubj |
| 20 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 castle | acl:relcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knocked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | past | Peppe | man's head | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Peppe not said here | man's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 3 | get | past | man | to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 4 | knock | past | man | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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