The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 88
Puddocky watched the Prince till he was out of sight and then crept back into the water.
Who acts: Puddocky, Prince · What happens: watch, be, creep back · To what, where: Prince, sight, water
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Puddocky, Prince), 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 | Puddocky | Puddocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 sight | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sight | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sight | cop |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crept | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 crept | advmod |
| 13 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 crept | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crept | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Puddocky | the Prince | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Prince | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep back | past | Puddocky not said here | the water | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
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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