The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 10
No; don't run off that way,' he added quickly, 'because there is another troop that are coming over the hill.
Who acts: you, many, troop · What happens: not run off, add, be, come · To what, where: way, hill
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, many, troop), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 run | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 run | advmod |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 run | compound:prt |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 added | nsubj |
| 12 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | parataxis |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 added | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ' | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 added | advcl |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 troop | det |
| 20 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 troop | acl:relcl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 hill | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hill | det |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run off | imperative · do-support | you not said here | that way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | many | quickly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | present | another troop | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | present · progressive | another troop | the hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=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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