The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 80
There he sat, dreamily gazing at his bouquet till he ended by going fast asleep.
Who acts: bird · What happens: sit, gaze, end, go
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gazing | punct |
| 5 | dreamily | dreamily | ADV | _ | 6 gazing | advmod |
| 6 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 bouquet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bouquet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bouquet | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazing | obl |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 ended | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ended | nsubj |
| 12 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ended | advcl |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | bird | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | bird not said here | at bird's bouquet; dreamily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bouquet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | end | past | bird | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | bird not said here | asleep, fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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