The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 88

The instant the animals caught sight of the lake lying before them, they trotted off as fast as their legs would go to the green meadows lying round it.

Who acts: instant, lake, animals, legs, green meadows · What happens: catch, lie, trot off, go, sight · To what, where: sight, green meadows, 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 (instant, lake, animals, legs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 instant	det
2	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sight	nmod
10	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 lake	acl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lying	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trotted	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trotted	nsubj
15	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 trotted	compound:prt
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 trotted	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 go	mark
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 legs	nmod:poss
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 go	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trotted	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 meadows	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 meadows	det
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 meadows	amod
27	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 go	obl
28	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 meadows	acl
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the instant	sight of the lake				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	lie	gerund	the lake not said here			before animals = animal		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
3	trot off	past	animals = animal				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	would	animals's legs		the green meadows			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location
5	lie	gerund	the green meadows not said here				round instant	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sight			the lake				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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