The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 51
With a joyful start she recognised the beast, and bound her own table-napkin round his neck.
Who acts: napkin · What happens: recognise · To what, where: beast
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 (napkin), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 start | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 start | det |
| 3 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 start | amod |
| 4 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognised | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 recognised | nsubj |
| 6 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beast | det |
| 8 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognised | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 napkin | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 napkin | cc |
| 11 | bound | bound | ADP | _ | 16 napkin | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 napkin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 napkin | amod |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 napkin | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 table | punct |
| 16 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognised | obl |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 napkin | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | napkin | the beast | with a joyful start; bound napkin's own table napkin round King's neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus |
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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