The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 157
But the mole kicked him with his bandy legs and said:
Who acts: mole · What happens: kick, say · To what, where: visitor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mole), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 kicked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mole | det |
| 3 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kicked | nsubj |
| 4 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kicked | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 legs | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bandy | bandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legs | amod |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kicked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kicked | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 kicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | the mole | visitor | with mole's bandy legs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with leg=Instrument | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mole not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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