The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 75
In an instant the hare had leaped through the hole, and was racing towards the river, with men, women, and children after him.
What happens: leap, race · To what, where: hare, instant, river
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaped | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaped | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaped | aux |
| 7 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 hole | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hole | det |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 racing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 racing | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 racing | aux |
| 14 | racing | race | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 leaped | advcl |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 river | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 racing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 men | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 racing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 women | punct |
| 22 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 men | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 children | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 children | cc |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leaped | obl |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 children | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past · perfect · passive | the hare | a instant | through the hole; children after man obl | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | race | past · progressive | the river | with men and women | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards river=Destination |
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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