The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 75
But in a short time they grew as wild as the pigs had done, and scattered in all directions.
Who acts: sheep · What happens: grow, do, scatter · To what, where: pigs, directions
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 (sheep), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 grew | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 wild | advmod |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pigs | det |
| 12 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 done | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grew | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scattered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 scattered | cc |
| 17 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grew | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 directions | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 directions | det |
| 20 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scattered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | sheep | time | wild property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect · passive | the pigs | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | scatter | participle | sheep not said here | all directions | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in direction=Destination |
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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