The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 44
Full of hope the young prince started on his way, but no sooner was he outside the city walls than a hare sprang out of the bushes and ran before him, till they reached the mill.
Who acts: young prince, emperor, city walls, Prince · What happens: hope, start, be, spring out, run, reach · To what, where: way, bushes, mill · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young prince, emperor, city walls, Prince), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 hope | case |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Full | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prince | amod |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walls | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 walls | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 sooner | det |
| 14 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 walls | advmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 walls | cop |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 walls | nsubj |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 20 walls | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 walls | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walls | compound |
| 20 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Full | conj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 hare | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hare | det |
| 23 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walls | nmod |
| 24 | sprang | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 walls | acl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 bushes | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bushes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bushes | det |
| 28 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sprang | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ran | cc |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sprang | conj |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ran | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 reached | punct |
| 34 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 reached | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 reached | nsubj |
| 36 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ran | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mill | det |
| 38 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reached | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | start | past | the young prince | emperor's way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | emperor | outside the city walls; than a hare; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spring out | gerund | the city walls not said here | the bushes | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bush=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run | past | the city walls not said here | before emperor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | reach | past | Prince | the mill | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mill=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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