Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 79
The boy rushed out at the sight, sped across the courtyard, and fled from the house.
Who acts: boy · What happens: rush out, speed, flee · To what, where: sight, courtyard, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 rushed | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sped | punct |
| 9 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sight | acl |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 courtyard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 courtyard | det |
| 12 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | past | the boy | the sight | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | speed | participle | the sight not said here | the courtyard | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across courtyard=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | the boy not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location |
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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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