The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 111
And the fox ran hastily on, as he did not wish to be seen talking to the shepherd.
Who acts: fox · What happens: run, not wish, see, talk
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 6 on | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 wish | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wish | advmod |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wish | advcl |
| 16 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 seen | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 shepherd | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shepherd | det |
| 19 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not wish | past · do-support | fox | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | fox not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | fox not said here | to the shepherd | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to shepherd=Co-Agent |
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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