The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 37
Then Ferko crawled to the edge of the lake and dipped his limbs in the water.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: crawl, dip · To what, where: edge, limbs, water
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 crawled | advmod |
| 2 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crawled | nsubj |
| 3 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 edge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 edge | det |
| 6 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crawled | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 edge | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dipped | cc |
| 11 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crawled | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dipped | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dipped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | Ferko | the edge of the lake | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination | |||
| 2 | dip | past | Ferko not said here | Ferko's limbs | the water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent limb=Theme in water=Trajectory |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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