The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 58
But Simon, after wandering about the market for some time with his three friends and some others he had picked up, returned home to his house.
Who acts: Simon, time · What happens: wonder, pick up, return · To what, where: Simon
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 (Simon, time), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 returned | cc |
| 2 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandering | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 wandering | mark |
| 5 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Simon | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 market | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 market | det |
| 8 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandering | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandering | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 friends | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 friends | nummod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 time | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 others | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 friends | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 picked | aux |
| 21 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 picked | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Simon | punct |
| 24 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 returned | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 returned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Simon not said here | time | about the market | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about market=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | some time with Simon's three friends and some others not said here | Simon | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | return | past | Simon | to Simon's house result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
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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