The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 93
He satisfied his hunger with the food he had in his knapsack, lit his pipe, pitched his tent under the boughs of a tree, wrapped himself in his furs, and went sound asleep.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: satisfy, have, light, pitch, wrap, go · To what, where: hunger, food, knapsack, pipe, tent, boughs
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 satisfied | nsubj |
| 2 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 satisfied | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 food | det |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunger | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 food | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 knapsack | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lit | punct |
| 14 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 satisfied | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lit | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pitched | punct |
| 18 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 satisfied | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tent | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pitched | obj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 boughs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boughs | det |
| 23 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pitched | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 boughs | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wrapped | punct |
| 28 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pitched | conj |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 wrapped | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 furs | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 furs | nmod:poss |
| 32 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wrapped | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 went | cc |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 satisfied | conj |
| 36 | sound | sound | ADV | _ | 35 went | advmod |
| 37 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 went | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | past | Hans | Hans's hunger | with the food | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme with food=Instrument | |||
| 2 | have | past | Hans | the food not said here | Hans's knapsack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 3 | light | past | Hans not said here | Hans's pipe | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product | ||||
| 4 | pitch | past | Hans's tent | the boughs of a tree | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme under bough=Destination | ||||
| 5 | wrap | past | Hans | Hans's furs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in fur=Destination | ||||
| 6 | go | past | Hans not said here | asleep, sound property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hunger | Hans | with the food | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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