The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 113
So he just went round a corner for a short time, and then came hopping back in a great hurry.
Who acts: Gudu · What happens: go, come, hop back · To what, where: corner, great hurry
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 came | advmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 hopping | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hurry | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hurry | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hurry | amod |
| 21 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hopping | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Gudu | a corner | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | Gudu not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hop back | gerund | Gudu not said here | a great hurry | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory |
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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