The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 10
Which was true, but they shook down some straw for him behind the stove, and there he lay for eight years.
Who acts: children, farmer · What happens: be, shake down, lie · To what, where: straw, stove
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, farmer), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 shook | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | nsubj |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 shook | compound:prt |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 straw | det |
| 10 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | obl |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 stove | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stove | det |
| 15 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 lay | expl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lay | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | true property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shake down | past | children = child | some straw | the stove | for farmer | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme behind stove=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | lie | past | farmer | there | year | vn assuming_position-50 «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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