The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 88
Away and away he tramped out of the city and into the neighbouring forest, tracking hoof-marks in the mud.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: tramp, neighbour, track · To what, where: city, hoof marks, mud
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 (Moti), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 5 tramped | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 away | cc |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Away | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tramped | nsubj |
| 5 | tramped | tramp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tramped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forest | cc |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 13 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 forest | amod |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 city | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tracking | punct |
| 16 | tracking | track | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 tramped | advcl |
| 17 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marks | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoof | punct |
| 19 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tracking | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mud | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mud | det |
| 22 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tracking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tramped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tramp | past | Moti | the city and the neighbouring forest | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out city=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | track | gerund | Moti not said here | hoof marks | the mud | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme in mud=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 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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