The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 175
Peeping cautiously between the wooden pillars of the chapel, he saw a troop of hideous cats, dancing furiously, making the night horrible with their yells.
Who acts: sound, cats · What happens: peep, see, dance, make, yell · To what, where: troop
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, cats), 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 | Peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saw | advcl |
| 2 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 1 Peeping | advmod |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 pillars | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pillars | det |
| 5 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pillars | amod |
| 6 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Peeping | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chapel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chapel | det |
| 9 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pillars | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peeping | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 troop | det |
| 14 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cats | case |
| 16 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cats | amod |
| 17 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 troop | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dancing | punct |
| 19 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | conj |
| 20 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 19 dancing | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 making | punct |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 dancing | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 making | obj |
| 25 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 making | xcomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 yells | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 yells | nmod:poss |
| 28 | yells | yell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 horrible | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | gerund | sound not said here | between the wooden pillars of the chapel; cautiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent between pillar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sound | a troop of hideous cats | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | sound not said here | furiously property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | sound not said here | night | horrible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 5 | yell | cats = cat | nom yell «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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