The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 199
And he crept down with his spear in his hand, and then he stopped and gazed below him.
Who acts: boy · What happens: creep down, stop, gaze · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 crept | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 spear | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 stopped | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gazed | cc |
| 17 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stopped | conj |
| 18 | below | below | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gazed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep down | past | boy | boy's hand | with boy's spear; down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stop | past | boy | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | boy not said here | below boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent below 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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