English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 47
He put on the gloves, and felt perfectly happy as he trudged homewards.
Who acts: man · What happens: put, feel, trudge · To what, where: gloves, homewards
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 gloves | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gloves | det |
| 5 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 felt | cc |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 9 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 10 happy | advmod |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 trudged | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trudged | nsubj |
| 13 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | advcl |
| 14 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 trudged | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | man | the gloves | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on glove=Destination | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | man not said here | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | trudge | past | man | homewards | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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