The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 61
I ran too, hither and thither, but as fast as I caught one, another was off, till I was in despair.
Who acts: I · What happens: run, catch, be · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hither | punct |
| 5 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thither | cc |
| 7 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 5 hither | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 caught | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 fast | advmod |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 caught | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 caught | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 caught | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 another | punct |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 caught | conj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 off | cop |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 another | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 despair | punct |
| 21 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 despair | case |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 despair | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 despair | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 despair | case |
| 25 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | I | hither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | I | one | fast property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | I | till despair | tree rules |
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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