The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 18
Then he took the key back, but the hairy man escaped and went off into the world.
Who acts: king, hairy man · What happens: take back, escape, go off · To what, where: key, world
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, hairy man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 key | det |
| 5 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 escaped | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 escaped | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 escaped | nsubj |
| 12 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | past | king | the key | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | |||
| 2 | escape | past | the hairy man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go off | past | king not said here | the world | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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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