The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 32
He painted his face brown and black, drew his cap well over his face, and knocked at the door.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: paint, draw, knock · To what, where: face, cap
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 painted | obj |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 painted | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 black | cc |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brown | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 painted | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cap | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 drew | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knocked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knocked | cc |
| 18 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 painted | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knocked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | Prince | Prince's face | brown property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw | past | Prince not said here | Prince's cap | Prince's face | well property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||
| 3 | knock | past | Prince not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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