The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 71
He was born amidst the shouts and laughter of the boys, and greeted by the jingling bells and cracking whips of the sledges.
What happens: bear, shout, greet, crack · To what, where: wind, whips
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | amidst | amidst | SCONJ | _ | 6 shouts | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shouts | det |
| 6 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laughter | cc |
| 8 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouts | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 boys | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boys | det |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 laughter | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 greeted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 greeted | cc |
| 14 | greeted | greet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 born | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 bells | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bells | det |
| 17 | jingling | jingling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bells | compound |
| 18 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 greeted | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cracking | cc |
| 20 | cracking | crack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 greeted | conj |
| 21 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cracking | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sledges | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sledges | det |
| 24 | sledges | sledge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 whips | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | wind | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | participle | by the jingling bells | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | crack | gerund | whips of the sledges | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=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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