The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 95
‘Bow-wow!’ barked the yard-dog, and walked three times round himself, and then crept into his kennel to sleep.
Who acts: Bow · What happens: bark, walk, creep, sleep · To what, where: yard dog, kennel
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: who acts (Bow), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bow | punct |
| 2 | Bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barked | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wow | punct |
| 4 | wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 2 Bow | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bow | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bow | punct |
| 7 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 9 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 yard | punct |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walked | cc |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barked | parataxis |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 walked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crept | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crept | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 crept | advmod |
| 22 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 walked | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 kennel | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kennel | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crept | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sleep | mark |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 crept | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 barked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | past | Bow | the yard dog | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | time | round Bow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round himself=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | Bow's kennel | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into kennel=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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