The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 6
This he did several times, till the old man wondered what could be the matter, and, picking up the spade, followed where the dog led him.
Who acts: This, old man, picking, dog · What happens: do, wonder, be, pick up, follow, lead · To what, where: matter, spade, place
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 (This, old man, picking, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wondered | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 wondered | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wondered | nsubj |
| 11 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 wondered | obj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 matter | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 matter | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 matter | det |
| 16 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 followed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 followed | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 picking | punct |
| 20 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 followed | csubj:pass |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 picking | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spade | det |
| 23 | spade | spade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 picking | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 followed | punct |
| 25 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 led | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dog | det |
| 28 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 led | nsubj |
| 29 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 followed | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 led | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | the old man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | could | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pick up | gerund | the spade | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Topic | |||||
| 5 | follow | participle | picking | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lead | past | the dog | place | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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