The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 69
The hare, who had been watching the whales as they sailed down the river, gave a violent start, and struggled to get away; but the boy held on tight, and ran back home, as fast as he could go.
Who acts: hare, whales, boy · What happens: watch, sail down, give, struggle, get away, hold · To what, where: whales, river, violent start, boy, tight
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 (hare, whales, boy), 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 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watching | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watching | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 watching | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watching | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 watching | aux |
| 7 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whales | det |
| 9 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 watching | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 sailed | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sailed | nsubj |
| 12 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watching | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sailed | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sailed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sailed | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 start | det |
| 19 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 start | amod |
| 20 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 struggled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 struggled | cc |
| 23 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gave | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 struggled | xcomp |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 get | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 ran | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 ran | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 boy | det |
| 30 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ran | nsubj |
| 31 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 boy | acl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 tight | case |
| 33 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 held | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ran | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ran | cc |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watching | conj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 home | advmod |
| 38 | home | home | ADV | _ | 36 ran | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fast | punct |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 fast | advmod |
| 41 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 ran | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 go | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 go | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 go | aux |
| 45 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 fast | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | the hare | the whales | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sail down | past | whales = whale | the river | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | give | past | whales = whale not said here | a violent start | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Theme | ||||
| 4 | struggle | past | whales = whale not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get away | to-infinitive | whales = whale not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | hold | participle | the boy not said here | tight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location | ||||
| 7 | run back | past | the boy | fast, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go | could | Hare | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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