The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 43
The rascal took the beast, thanked him kindly, and rode on to join his comrades, while Simon continued his journey on foot.
Who acts: rascal, Simon · What happens: take, thank, ride on, join, continue, journey · To what, where: beast, animal, comrades, journey, foot
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 (rascal, Simon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rascal | det |
| 2 | rascal | rascal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beast | det |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thanked | punct |
| 7 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thanked | obj |
| 9 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 7 thanked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rode | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 join | mark |
| 15 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rode | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 17 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 join | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 continued | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 continued | mark |
| 20 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 continued | nsubj |
| 21 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rode | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 continued | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 foot | case |
| 25 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 continued | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the rascal | the beast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the rascal not said here | animal | kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | ride on | past | the rascal not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | join | to-infinitive | the rascal not said here | animal's comrades | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient | ||||
| 5 | continue | past | Simon | Simon's journey | foot | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 6 | journey | Simon | nom journey «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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