The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 41
They hurried on till they arrived at the mountain without once looking back.
Who acts: men · What happens: hurry on, arrive, look back · To what, where: mountain
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 hurried | compound:prt |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 arrived | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurried | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 looking | mark |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 looking | advmod |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 arrived | advcl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry on | past | men = man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past | men = man | the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look back | gerund | men = man not said here | once property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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