The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 104
The driver turned round, and nodded to Kay ina friendly way as if they had known each other before.
Who acts: driver · What happens: turn round, nod, know · To what, where: friendly way, Kay
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 (driver), 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 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nodded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nodded | cc |
| 7 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Kay | case |
| 9 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nodded | obl |
| 10 | ina | ina | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 way | dep |
| 11 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nodded | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 known | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 known | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 known | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | aux |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 nodded | advcl |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 known | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 known | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | the driver | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | the driver not said here | friendly way | Kay | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kay=Recipient | |||
| 3 | know | past · perfect · passive | Kay | each other obl; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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