The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 33
Thereupon he rushed off and cut grass as fast he could.
Who acts: man · What happens: rush off, cut · To what, where: grass
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 rushed | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cut | cc |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rushed | conj |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 cut | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush off | past | man | thereupon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | participle | man not said here | grass | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grass=Product |
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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