The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 102

The sledge drove twice round the square, and Kay fastened his little sledge behind it and drove off.

Who acts: sledge, Kay · What happens: drive, fasten, drive off · To what, where: square, little sledge

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sledge, Kay), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sledge	det
2	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 drove	advmod
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 square	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 square	det
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fastened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fastened	cc
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fastened	nsubj
11	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sledge	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sledge	amod
14	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fastened	obj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fastened	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drove	cc
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fastened	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 drove	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the sledge		the square	twice property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round square=Trajectory
2	fasten	past	Kay	sledge's little sledge	square		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient
3	drive off	past	Kay not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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