The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 155
Waska, being very agile, climbed up by the outside to the grated window, and called in an anxious voice:
Who acts: Waska · What happens: be, climb up, grate, call · To what, where: anxious voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 agile | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Waska | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 agile | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 agile | advmod |
| 5 | agile | agile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbed | punct |
| 7 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 agile | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 climbed | compound:prt |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 outside | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 outside | det |
| 11 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 14 | grated | grate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 window | amod |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 called | cc |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 agile | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 voice | det |
| 21 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 voice | amod |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 agile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | Waska | agile property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb up | participle | Waska not said here | by the outside; to the grated window result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by outside=Extent to window=Result | ||||
| 3 | grate | participle | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | call | participle | a anxious voice | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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 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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