The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 82
And up he sprang, and was going off hastily, when Master Peter caught him by the arm.
Who acts: man, Master · What happens: spring, go off, catch · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Master), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sprang | cc |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 going | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sprang | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 going | compound:prt |
| 10 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caught | punct |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 caught | mark |
| 13 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | nsubj |
| 14 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Master | flat |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caught | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arm | det |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | man | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go off | past · progressive | man not said here | hastily property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | Master | man | by the arm | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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