The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 75
NOW he had quite finished his bath, and as he left the bathroom he cried:
Who acts: man · What happens: finish, leave, cry · To what, where: bath, bathroom
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | NOW | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 finished | advmod |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 cried | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bath | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cried | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 left | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bathroom | det |
| 14 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | man | man's bath | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector bath=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | leave | past | man | the bathroom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bathroom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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