The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 63
After them hopped in a number of squirrels.
Who acts: pigs · What happens: hop · To what, where: number
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigs), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 hopped | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hopped | nsubj |
| 3 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 number | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hopped | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 squirrels | case |
| 8 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | pigs = pig | a number of squirrels | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Trajectory |
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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