The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 147
And Schurka growled, and was of opinion that he would like to tear everyone in pieces; but Waska purred meditatively, and scratched the back of her ear with a velvet paw, and remained lost in thought.
Who acts: Schurka, Waska · What happens: growl, be, like, tear, purr, scratch · To what, where: opinion, everyone, pieces, back, thought
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schurka, Waska), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 growled | cc |
| 2 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 growled | nsubj |
| 3 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 opinion | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 opinion | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opinion | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 opinion | case |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 growled | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 like | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 like | aux |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 opinion | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tear | mark |
| 14 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 like | xcomp |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 tear | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 everyone | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 purred | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 purred | cc |
| 20 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 purred | nsubj |
| 21 | purred | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 growled | conj |
| 22 | meditatively | meditatively | ADV | _ | 21 purred | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scratched | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 scratched | cc |
| 25 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 purred | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 back | det |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scratched | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ear | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 ear | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 back | nmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 paw | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 paw | det |
| 33 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 paw | compound |
| 34 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scratched | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 remained | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 remained | cc |
| 37 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 growled | conj |
| 38 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 remained | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 thought | case |
| 40 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lost | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl | past | Schurka | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | of opinion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | like | would | Schurka | opinion not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tear not said to happen | to-infinitive | Schurka not said here | everyone | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location everyone=Theme | |||
| 5 | purr | past | Waska | meditatively property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | scratch | past | Waska not said here | the back of Waska's ear | with a velvet paw | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient with paw=Instrument | |||
| 7 | remain | past | Schurka not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | lose | participle | Schurka not said here | thought | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality |
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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