The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 23
Rubbish!’ screamed Simon, and without another word he rode on his way.
Who acts: Rubbish · What happens: scream, ride · To what, where: Simon, way
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rubbish), 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 | Rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rubbish | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rubbish | punct |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rode | nsubj |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | Rubbish | Simon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simon=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | Rubbish | Rubbish's way | without another word | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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