The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 10
Once outside he hastened down the road which led to the forest.
Who acts: manner, road · What happens: hasten down, lead · To what, where: road
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, road), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 4 hastened | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hastened | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 hastened | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 road | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten down | past | manner | the road | once property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the road | to the forest | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to forest=Patient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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