The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 103
As soon as they beheld the sheep running towards the meadows, they turned aside up a steep hill, which overhung the lake.
Who acts: horsemen, sheep, steep hill · What happens: behold, run, turn, overhang · To what, where: sheep, meadows, steep hill, lake
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horsemen, sheep, steep hill), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beheld | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 beheld | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sheep | det |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beheld | obj |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sheep | acl |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 meadows | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meadows | det |
| 11 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 running | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beheld | conj |
| 15 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 hill | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hill | det |
| 18 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hill | amod |
| 19 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 overhung | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 overhung | nsubj |
| 22 | overhung | overhang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hill | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lake | det |
| 24 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 overhung | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | horsemen = horseman | the sheep | soon property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | the sheep not said here | the meadows | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards meadow=Destination | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | horsemen = horseman | a steep hill | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme up hill=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | overhang | past | a steep hill | the lake | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Co-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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