The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 54
The former coachman grew as white as a sheet when he saw the shepherd, and, falling on his knees, begged for mercy and pardon.
Who acts: former coachman, coachman · What happens: grow, see, fall, beg · To what, where: shepherd, knees
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 (former coachman, coachman), 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 coachman | det |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 coachman | amod |
| 3 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 white | advmod |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 sheet | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sheet | det |
| 9 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 white | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shepherd | det |
| 14 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 falling | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 falling | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 falling | punct |
| 18 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 grew | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 knees | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 knees | nmod:poss |
| 21 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 falling | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 begged | punct |
| 23 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 knees | acl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 mercy | case |
| 25 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begged | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pardon | cc |
| 27 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mercy | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the former coachman | white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | coachman | the shepherd | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | the former coachman not said here | coachman's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | participle | coachman's knees not said here | for mercy and pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic |
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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