The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 14
You might walk from one end to the other without ever seeing a hare, or a deer, or a boar, or hearing the cooing of the doves in their nest.
Who acts: You · What happens: walk, see, hear · To what, where: boar, one end, hare, cooing, nest
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 walk | aux |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 end | nummod |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walk | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walk | obl |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 seeing | mark |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 seeing | advmod |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walk | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hare | det |
| 14 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deer | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 deer | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 deer | det |
| 18 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 boar | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 boar | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boar | det |
| 22 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walk | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hearing | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 hearing | cc |
| 25 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walk | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cooing | det |
| 27 | cooing | cooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hearing | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 doves | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 doves | det |
| 30 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 cooing | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 nest | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 nest | nmod:poss |
| 33 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hearing | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | might | You | a boar | from one end | to the other result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to other=Result | ||
| 2 | see | gerund | You not said here | a hare | ever | a deer obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hare=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | hear | gerund | You not said here | the cooing of the doves | doves's nest | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cooing=Stimulus |
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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