The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 103
So they all set out, and rode across the plain, the little fox running before them.
Who acts: preparations, little fox · What happens: set out, ride, run · To what, where: plain
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations, little fox), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rode | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 plain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plain | det |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fox | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fox | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fox | amod |
| 15 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plain | conj |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 fox | acl |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 running | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | present | preparations = preparation | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | preparations = preparation not said here | the plain and the little fox | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across plain=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | the little fox not said here | before preparations = preparation | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Trajectory |
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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