The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 23
When his dogs came to the tree, they sniffed, and ran round and round it, barking.
Who acts: dogs · What happens: come, sniff, run, round, bark · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sniffed | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sniffed | nsubj |
| 10 | sniffed | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sniffed | conj |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 round | cc |
| 16 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ran | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 round | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 barking | punct |
| 19 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 round | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sniffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King's dogs | the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sniff | past | dogs = dog | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run | past | dogs = dog not said here | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | round | infinitive | dogs = dog not said here | tree | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bark | gerund | dogs = dog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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