The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 15
It shrieked and howled, ‘Sentry, where are you?
Who acts: lid, you · What happens: shriek, howl, be · To what, where: Sentry
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lid, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shrieked | nsubj |
| 2 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 howled | cc |
| 4 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shrieked | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sentry | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sentry | punct |
| 7 | Sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 howled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 where | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 Sentry | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 where | cop |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 where | nsubj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | lid | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | howl | past | lid not said here | Sentry | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | where property | tree rules |
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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