The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 215
Noiselessly they crept along till they were quite close to it; then, at a sign from the boy, they threw their spears.
Who acts: legs · What happens: creep, be, throw · To what, where: cloth, spears, sign
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 (legs), 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 | Noiselessly | noiselessly | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 close | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 close | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 close | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 close | advmod |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crept | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 close | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 threw | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 threw | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 then | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sign | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sign | det |
| 17 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 threw | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 boy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sign | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sign | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 threw | nsubj |
| 23 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 spears | nmod:poss |
| 25 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 threw | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | legs = leg | along, noiselessly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | legs = leg | cloth | close property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | throw | past | legs = leg | legs's spears | a sign from the boy | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at sign=Destination |
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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