The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 135
And she turned and ran back as fast as she could, not knowing that the head was jumping, dancing, and rolling after her.
Who acts: woman, head · What happens: turn, run back, not know, jump, dance, roll
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, head), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ran | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 could | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fast | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knowing | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 knowing | advmod |
| 14 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 jumping | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jumping | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 jumping | aux |
| 19 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 knowing | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dancing | punct |
| 21 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 jumping | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rolling | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rolling | cc |
| 24 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | advcl |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rolling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run back | past | woman not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | jump | past · progressive | the head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dance | gerund | the head not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | roll | gerund | woman not said here | after woman | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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