The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 49
The faithful creature trotted off, and soon returned with a table-napkin full of the most delicious food, and the napkin itself was embroidered with a kingly crown.
Who acts: faithful creature · What happens: trot off, return, embroider · To what, where: faithful creature, napkin
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 (faithful 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 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creature | amod |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | trotted | trot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 creature | acl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 trotted | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 returned | cc |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 returned | advmod |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 creature | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 napkin | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 napkin | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 napkin | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 table | punct |
| 14 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 napkin | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 food | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 food | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 delicious | advmod |
| 19 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 food | amod |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 embroidered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 embroidered | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 napkin | det |
| 24 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 embroidered | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 24 napkin | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 embroidered | aux:pass |
| 27 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 creature | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 crown | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 crown | det |
| 30 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 crown | amod |
| 31 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 embroidered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot off | participle | the faithful creature not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | participle | with a table napkin; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | embroider | past · passive | the faithful creature not said here | the napkin food | with a kingly crown | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with crown=Theme |
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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