The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 72
Then he embraced them, and struck down another road.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: embrace, strike down · To what, where: brothers, road
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 (Ciccu), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 embraced | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embraced | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 struck | cc |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 embraced | advcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 struck | compound:prt |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | Ciccu | brothers = brother | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | strike down | participle | Ciccu not said here | another road | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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