The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 38
A travelling circus was giving a performance, and the clown was just doing his tricks.
Who acts: travelling circus, clown · What happens: travel, give, do, trick · To what, where: performance, tricks
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelling circus, clown), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 circus | det |
| 2 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 circus | amod |
| 3 | circus | circus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giving | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 giving | aux |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 performance | det |
| 7 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giving | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 doing | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clown | det |
| 11 | clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 doing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 doing | aux |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 doing | advmod |
| 14 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 giving | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 doing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | give | past · progressive | a travelling circus | a performance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent performance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | the clown | clown's tricks | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | trick | clown | nom trick «act transitive»: 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 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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