The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 22
Off ran the second Simon and clambered quickly up the pillar.
What happens: run, clamber · To what, where: second Simon, pillar
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Simon | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Simon | amod |
| 5 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 clambered | cc |
| 7 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 clambered | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 pillar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pillar | det |
| 11 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clambered | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the second Simon | off property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simon=Agent | ||||
| 2 | clamber | past | the pillar | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up pillar=Trajectory |
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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