The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 31
But he ran down quickly by another path, and got there first, and hid himself in the bushes.
Who acts: husband · What happens: run down, get, hide · To what, where: husband, bushes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 path | det |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 got | advmod |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 got | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hid | cc |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hid | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bushes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bushes | det |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hid | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | husband | by another path; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by path=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | get | past | husband not said here | there | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | hide | past | husband not said here | husband | the bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in bush=Location |
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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