The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 118
And the hedgehog, his heart beating, set off as fast as he could.
Who acts: row · What happens: set off, beat · To what, where: heart beating
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (row), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hedgehog | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hedgehog | det |
| 3 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beating | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beating | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beating | compound |
| 7 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hedgehog | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beating | acl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 set | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 could | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fast | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hedgehog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | participle | row's heart beating not said here | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | row | nom beating «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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