The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 39
In another moment the sheep was standing on the ground and William was running towards home as fast as his legs would carry him.
Who acts: sheep, William, legs · What happens: stand, run, carry · To what, where: moment, ground, home, sheep
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, William, legs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sheep | det |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | aux |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 running | cc |
| 12 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 running | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 running | aux |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ground | conj |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 running | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 fast | advmod |
| 18 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 running | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 carry | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 legs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carry | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 carry | aux |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fast | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carry | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the sheep | another moment not said here | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moment=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | run | past · progressive | William | home | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=Destination | |||
| 3 | carry | would | sheep's legs | sheep | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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