The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 21
As he sat up in his tree he played away on his pipes and drew the loveliest music from them.
Who acts: cock · What happens: sit up, play away, draw · To what, where: tree, pipes, loveliest music
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 (cock), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tree | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 played | nsubj |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 played | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 pipes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 played | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drew | cc |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 played | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 music | det |
| 17 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 music | amod |
| 18 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | past | cock | cock's tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | play away | past | cock | cock's pipes | away property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | draw | past | cock not said here | the loveliest music | from pipes = pipe | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent music=Theme from they=Initial_Location |
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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