The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 42
And rushing out of the cave, followed by his wife, he ran down the path which led to the river.
Who acts: giant, path · What happens: rush out, follow, run down, lead · To what, where: cave, path
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, path), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2501): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 2 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ran | advcl |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ran | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushing | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 path | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 path | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 river | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | gerund | giant not said here | the cave | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | giant not said here | by giant's wife | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by wife=Location | ||||
| 3 | run down | past | giant | the path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | the path | to the river | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to river=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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