The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 97
His boots creaked dreadfully loud, but he was not frightened.’
Who acts: boots · What happens: creak, not frighten · To what, where: Kay
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boots), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 boots | nmod:poss |
| 2 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 creaked | nsubj |
| 3 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 5 loud | advmod |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creaked | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 frightened | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 frightened | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 frightened | advmod |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 creaked | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creaked | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 creaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak | past | Kay's boots | loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not frighten | past · passive | Kay | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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