The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 28
Then the dog ate up the body, all except its two front teeth, which the shepherd picked up and put in his pocket.
Who acts: dog, shepherd · What happens: eat up, pick up, put · To what, where: body, two front teeth, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, shepherd), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ate | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ate | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 teeth | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 teeth | det |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 14 teeth | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 teeth | nummod |
| 13 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 teeth | amod |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ate | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 picked | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 picked | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shepherd | det |
| 18 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 picked | nsubj |
| 19 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 picked | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 picked | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pocket | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 25 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl | ||
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | past | the dog | the body | then | except body's two front teeth | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||
| 2 | pick up | past | the shepherd | body's two front teeth | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | the shepherd not said here | neck's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=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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