The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 28
In the carriage itself sat Puddocky, who kissed her hand to the Prince out of the window as she passed by.
Who acts: carriage, Puddocky · What happens: sit, kiss, pass by · To what, where: carriage, hand, window
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage, Puddocky), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 carriage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carriage | det |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Puddocky | Puddocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kissed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 kissed | nsubj |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | ccomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 passed | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 passed | nsubj |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kissed | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 passed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | carriage | the carriage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Puddocky | Puddocky's hand | the window | to the Prince | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | pass by | past | Puddocky | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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