The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 105
Every time that Kay tried to unfasten his sledge the driver nodded again, and Kay sat still once more.
Who acts: Kay, driver · What happens: try, unfasten, nod, sit · To what, where: 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 (Kay, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 tried | mark |
| 4 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 unfasten | mark |
| 7 | unfasten | unfasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unfasten | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 driver | det |
| 11 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nodded | nsubj |
| 12 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 unfasten | ccomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 nodded | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sat | cc |
| 16 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | nsubj |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 sat | advmod |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 sat | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Kay | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | unfasten not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kay not said here | driver's sledge | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | nod | past | the driver | again | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | Kay | still | vn assuming_position-50 «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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