The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 130
This time the fox ran faster than before, and in a flowery meadow he found a troop of horses feeding.
Who acts: fox, troop · What happens: run, find, feed · To what, where: troop, flowery meadow
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, troop), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 faster | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 meadow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 meadow | det |
| 13 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 meadow | amod |
| 14 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 troop | det |
| 18 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 horses | case |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 troop | nmod |
| 21 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 found | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the fox | time | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | fox | a troop of horses | a flowery meadow | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent troop=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | feed | gerund | a troop of horses not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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