Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 3
Imagine walking through long grass and finding a spotted fawn lying perfectly still.
Who acts: you, spotted fawn · What happens: imagine, walk, find, spot, lie · To what, where: long grass, spotted fawn
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, spotted fawn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Imagine | xcomp |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grass | amod |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walking | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 finding | cc |
| 7 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 walking | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fawn | det |
| 9 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fawn | amod |
| 10 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finding | obj |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 fawn | acl |
| 12 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 13 still | advmod |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 lying | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | you not said here | long grass | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | you not said here | a spotted fawn | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fawn=Topic | ||||
| 4 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | a spotted fawn not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:3.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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