The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 30
By-and-by a hare came running across a field, but stopped to see what wonderful thing was coming.
Who acts: wonderful thing · What happens: come, run, stop, see · To what, where: field · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful thing), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hare | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hare | det |
| 7 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 running | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stopped | xcomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 coming | obj |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 coming | aux |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 see | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | by a hare | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hare=Location | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | a field | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | come | past · progressive | wonderful thing | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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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