Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 158
Meanwhile Lambikin trundled along, laughing to himself, and singing:
Who acts: Lambikin · What happens: trundle along, laugh, sing · To what, where: Lambikin
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lambikin), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 trundled | advmod |
| 2 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trundled | nsubj |
| 3 | trundled | trundle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 trundled | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laughing | punct |
| 6 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 trundled | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 laughing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 singing | cc |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 trundled | advcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 trundled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trundle along | past | Lambikin | along, meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | Lambikin not said here | Lambikin | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | Lambikin not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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