The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 115
The golden cock crowed afresh, and back went dishes, table, chairs, and plates into the middle of the block.
Who acts: golden cock · What happens: crow, go · To what, where: dishes, middle
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden cock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cock | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cock | amod |
| 3 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowed | nsubj |
| 4 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crowed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowed | conj |
| 10 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 table | punct |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dishes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chairs | punct |
| 14 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dishes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plates | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 plates | cc |
| 17 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dishes | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 middle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 middle | det |
| 20 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 block | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 block | det |
| 23 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 middle | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | past | the golden cock | afresh property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the golden cock not said here | dishes and table and chairs and plates | the middle of the block | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dish=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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