The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 50
They led him miles over hill and vale, stock and stone, to find a raven’s brood, or a nest of squirrels in a hollow tree, and when he was angry with them they laughed in his face and ran away.
Who acts: boys, Peter · What happens: lead, find, be, laugh, run away · To what, where: Peter, hill, brood
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Peter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 led | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 hill | case |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vale | cc |
| 8 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hill | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stock | punct |
| 10 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hill | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stone | cc |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hill | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 led | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 raven | det |
| 17 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 raven | case |
| 19 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 nest | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 nest | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 nest | det |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 squirrels | case |
| 25 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 nest | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 tree | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 28 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tree | amod |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 squirrels | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 angry | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 angry | cc |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 angry | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 angry | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 angry | cop |
| 35 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 led | parataxis |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 angry | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 laughed | nsubj |
| 39 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | parataxis |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 face | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 face | nmod:poss |
| 42 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 laughed | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ran | cc |
| 44 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 laughed | conj |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 ran | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | boys = boy | Peter | hill and vale and stock and stone | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | boys = boy not said here | a raven's brood | a nest of squirrels in a hollow tree obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | Peter | with boys = boy; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | boys = boy | in Peter's face | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run away | past | boys = boy not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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