Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 77

Immediately a great dog came bounding towards her out of the ravine, and then another and another; they barked loudly, ran back, and then came again.

Who acts: great dog, dogs · What happens: come, bound, bark, run back · To what, where: ravine

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great dog, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14329): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bounding	obl
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 ravine	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ravine	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ravine	det
12	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bounding	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 another	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 another	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 another	orphan
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 came	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 another	cc
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 another	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 barked	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 barked	nsubj
21	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
22	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	21 barked	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 barked	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 ran	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 came	advmod
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 barked	conj
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a great dog			immediately property	tree rules
2	bound	gerund	a great dog not said here	the ravine		towards sound	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards her=Destination
3	bark	past	dogs = dog			loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run back	past	dogs = dog not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	dogs = dog not said here		then; again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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