The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 4
For the moment the dog ran round the bushes barking loudly, the little bear servant rushed out in a fright, and set out for the mountains as fast as he could.
Who acts: dog, bushes · What happens: run, bark, rush out, set out · To what, where: little bear servant, bushes, fright
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, bushes), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 bushes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bushes | det |
| 9 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | obl |
| 10 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bushes | acl |
| 11 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 10 barking | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 servant | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 servant | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 servant | amod |
| 15 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 servant | compound |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 17 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 servant | acl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 rushed | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fright | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fright | det |
| 21 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rushed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 mountains | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountains | det |
| 28 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 set | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 fast | advmod |
| 30 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 set | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 could | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 could | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 fast | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the dog | the little bear servant | the bushes | moment | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bush=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | bark | gerund | the bushes not said here | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rush out | participle | the little bear servant not said here | a fright | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | set out | past | the dog not said here | for the mountains; fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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