The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 21
His brother and sister ran to meet him, and called out from the distance, ‘Where have you been so long, Lasse?
Who acts: brother, you · What happens: run, meet, call out, have, be · To what, where: Lasse
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, you), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sister | cc |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | conj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 ran | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 called | compound:prt |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 18 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 long | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 long | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Lasse | punct |
| 25 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 long | vocative |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Lasse's brother and sister | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Lasse's brother and sister not said here | Lasse | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | Lasse's brother and sister not said here | from the distance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from distance=Source | ||||
| 4 | have | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | participle | Lasse vocative; long property | tree rules |
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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