The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 59
When he and his guests entered the courtyard, they noticed the goat tied to the post quietly chewing the cud.
Who acts: Simon, guests, post · What happens: enter, notice, tie, chew · To what, where: courtyard, goat, cud
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, guests, post), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 guests | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 guests | nmod:poss |
| 5 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 he | conj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 noticed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 courtyard | det |
| 8 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 noticed | nsubj |
| 11 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goat | det |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 noticed | obj |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 goat | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 post | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 post | det |
| 17 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 18 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 19 chewing | advmod |
| 19 | chewing | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 post | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cud | det |
| 21 | cud | cud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chewing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Simon | the courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Destination | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | guests = guest | the goat | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer goat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tie | participle | the goat not said here | to the post | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to post=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | chew | gerund | the post not said here | the cud | quietly property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient |
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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