The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 52
Shrieking with pain, he let fall the burning wood from his back, and stamped and howled with agony.
Who acts: hare · What happens: shriek, fall, stamp, howl · To what, where: burning wood, back
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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 | Shrieking | shriek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fall | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 pain | case |
| 3 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shrieking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shrieking | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fall | nsubj |
| 6 | let | let | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fall | aux |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 9 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wood | compound |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stamped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stamped | cc |
| 16 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fall | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 howled | cc |
| 18 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stamped | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 agony | case |
| 20 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 howled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | gerund | hare not said here | with pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | hare | the burning wood | hare's back | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient wood=Extent from back=Initial_State | ||||
| 3 | stamp | past | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | howl | past | with agony | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with agony=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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