The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 8
Ciccu did not much like it; however he went on his way, and with a trembling heart rang the castle bell.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: do, go, ring · To what, where: way, castle bell
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. 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 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rang | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rang | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 heart | det |
| 18 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heart | compound |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rang | obl |
| 20 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bell | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bell | compound |
| 23 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rang | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ciccu | like stalk | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Ciccu | Ciccu's way | however property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 3 | ring | past | Ciccu not said here | the castle bell | with a trembling heart | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bell=Destination with heart=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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