The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 37
The prince-deer now bounded into the garden and at once sought some way of escape.
What happens: bound, seek · To what, where: prince deer, garden, way
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 4 deer | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deer | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 prince | punct |
| 4 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bounded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 bounded | advmod |
| 6 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bounded | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sought | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 sought | obl |
| 13 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bounded | conj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sought | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 escape | case |
| 17 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | participle · passive | the prince deer | the garden | now | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | seek | past | some way of escape | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme at once=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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