The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 23
The little creature nodded, but helped himself so clumsily that he dropped the piece of meat he had carved on to the floor.
Who acts: little creature, creature · What happens: nod, help, drop, carve · To what, where: little creature, creature, piece, meat, floor
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little creature, creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creature | amod |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helped | nsubj |
| 4 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 creature | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 helped | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 helped | cc |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 helped | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 clumsily | advmod |
| 10 | clumsily | clumsily | ADV | _ | 7 helped | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 dropped | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dropped | nsubj |
| 13 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 helped | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 meat | case |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carved | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 carved | aux |
| 20 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 meat | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 floor | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 floor | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 floor | det |
| 24 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carved | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | participle | the little creature not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | help | past | the little creature | creature | clumsily property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | drop | past | creature | the piece of meat | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carve | past · perfect | creature | meat not said here | the floor | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme on floor=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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