The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 5

There was nothing very strange in this, as all dogs are fond of scratching, and he went on quietly with his digging, when the dog ran up to his master, barking loudly, and back again to the place where he had been scratching.

Who acts: nothing, dogs, animal, dog · What happens: be, go on, run up, bark, scratch, dig

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, dogs, animal, dog), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 strange	advmod
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 strange	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fond	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 fond	mark
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 dogs	det
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fond	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fond	cop
13	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 scratching	case
15	scratching	scratching	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fond	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fond	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 went	compound:prt
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 digging	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 digging	nmod:poss
24	digging	digging	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 ran	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 ran	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 master	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 master	nmod:poss
33	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ran	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 barking	punct
35	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 ran	advcl
36	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	35 barking	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 place	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 place	cc
39	back	back	ADV	_	40 again	advmod
40	again	again	ADV	_	43 place	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 place	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 place	det
43	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 scratching	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 scratching	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 scratching	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 scratching	aux
48	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 place	acl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	all dogs		of scratching; fond property	tree rules
3	go on	past	animal		with animal's digging; quietly property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run up	past	the dog		to animal's master result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to master=Result
5	bark	gerund	the dog not said here		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	scratch	past · perfect · progressive	animal			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	dig		animal			nom digging «act transitive»: poss=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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