The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 74
And thrice this happened, till the deer ran away over the moor, and the young man after her.
Who acts: you, this, deer · What happens: thrice, happen, run away · To what, where: young man, moor
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, deer), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 thrice | cc |
| 2 | thrice | thrice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thrice | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 ran | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 deer | det |
| 8 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 moor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moor | det |
| 13 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 man | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrice | obl |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 man | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thrice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrice | imperative | you not said here | the young man after woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run away | past | the deer | the moor | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over moor=Trajectory |
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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