The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 89
Here a rat ran out almost under his feet, followed by another and another; but quick as thought the cat was upon them and not one escaped her.
Who acts: rat, cat, one · What happens: run out, follow, think, be, escape · To what, where: feet, Cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rat, cat, one), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rat | det |
| 3 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 feet | advmod |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 feet | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 another | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 followed | obl:agent |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 another | cc |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 another | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 18 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thought | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 quick | fixed |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cat | det |
| 22 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 them | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 them | cop |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 escaped | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 one | advmod |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 escaped | nsubj |
| 29 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thought | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 escaped | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | a rat | here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | man's feet not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the cat | upon feet = foot | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | escape | past | one | Cat | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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