The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 57
But when they reached the place where Paul had left the dwarf, neither he nor the tree was to be seen, for the little fellow had pulled it up by the roots and run away, dragging it after him.
Who acts: creatures, Paul, roots · What happens: reach, leave, see, pull up, run away, drag · To what, where: place, dwarf, Paul, little fellow
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, Paul, roots), 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 | _ | 4 reached | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 left | advmod |
| 8 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 left | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dwarf | det |
| 12 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 14 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 seen | cc:preconj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 tree | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 he | conj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reached | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pulled | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 pulled | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fellow | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fellow | amod |
| 27 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 pulled | aux |
| 29 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 seen | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pulled | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 pulled | compound:prt |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 roots | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 roots | det |
| 34 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 pulled | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 run | cc |
| 36 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 pulled | conj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 run | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dragging | punct |
| 39 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 run | advcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 dragging | obj |
| 41 | after | after | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 dragging | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | creatures = creature | the place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Paul | the dwarf | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | Paul | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pull up | past · perfect · passive | the roots | the little fellow | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent subject=Theme it=Result | ||||
| 5 | run away | present | the roots not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | drag | gerund | the roots not said here | place | after Paul | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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