The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 33
He had not long left the castle, when a hare sprang out of a thicket and dashed across the road in front.
Who acts: eldest, hare · What happens: not leave, spring out, dash · To what, where: castle, thicket, road
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 (eldest, hare), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 left | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 sprang | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hare | det |
| 11 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 castle | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 thicket | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thicket | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thicket | det |
| 16 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dashed | cc |
| 18 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 left | conj |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dashed | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 road | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past · perfect | eldest = eld | the castle | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||
| 2 | spring out | gerund | a hare | a thicket | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thicket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dash | participle | eldest = eld not said here | the road in front | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=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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