The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 96
The lion at once sprang towards them with a loud roar, but the deer bounded away, and they were all three soon lost to sight.
Who acts: lion · What happens: spring, bound away, lose · To what, where: lion, deer
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 (lion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bounded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 sprang | mark |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 sprang | advmod |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 lion | acl |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sprang | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 roar | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 roar | det |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 roar | amod |
| 11 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bounded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bounded | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deer | det |
| 15 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bounded | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 bounded | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lost | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lost | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lost | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 three | advmod |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 lost | advmod |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bounded | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sight | mark |
| 27 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | gerund | the lion not said here | towards Lion; with a loud roar; once property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bound away | participle · passive | the lion | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | deer | soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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