The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 54
But as he was hopping past one of the back windows the King’s cook saw him:
Who acts: King · What happens: hop, see · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 hopping | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hopping | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hopping | aux |
| 5 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 saw | advcl |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hopping | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 windows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 windows | det |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 windows | compound |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cook | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 windows | nmod |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past · progressive | King | past one of the back windows the King's cook | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past one=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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