The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 18
The rabbit nodded, and Gudu disappeared behind a rock, but soon returned dragging the dead goat with him.
Who acts: rabbit, Gudu · What happens: nod, disappear, return, drag · To what, where: rock, dead goat
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbit, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | nsubj |
| 3 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 disappeared | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 disappeared | cc |
| 6 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 disappeared | nsubj |
| 7 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nodded | conj |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disappeared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 returned | advmod |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nodded | conj |
| 15 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 returned | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 goat | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 goat | amod |
| 18 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dragging | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dragging | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the rabbit | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | disappear | past | Gudu | a rock | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the rabbit not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drag | gerund | the rabbit not said here | the dead goat | with Gudu | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/18/