The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 90

Very soon he could imitate the way all the people in the street walked and talked.

Who acts: frost, people · What happens: imitate, walk, talk · To what, where: way

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 (frost, people), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 imitate	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 imitate	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 imitate	aux
5	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imitate	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 people	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 walked	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 street	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 street	det
13	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	nmod
14	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 imitate	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 talked	cc
16	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 walked	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 imitate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imitate	could	frost	the way	soon property	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	walk	past	all people in the street			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	past	all people in the street not said here			vn talk-37.5 «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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