The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 68
‘Ah, I must hurry and catch it up,’ replied the second snake, and it hastened on.
Who acts: I · What happens: hurry, catch up, reply, hasten on · To what, where: pot, second snake
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurry | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 hurry | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hurry | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurry | aux |
| 6 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 catch | cc |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurry | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 catch | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurry | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 snake | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 snake | amod |
| 16 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hastened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hastened | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hastened | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hurry | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hastened | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | must | I | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch up | infinitive | I not said here | pot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the second snake | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hasten on | participle · passive | pot | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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