The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 19
And what were those grey forms trotting away in the distance?
Who acts: grey forms · What happens: trot away
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grey forms), 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 | _ | 7 trotting | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 trotting | obj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trotting | aux |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 forms | det |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forms | amod |
| 6 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trotting | nsubj |
| 7 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 trotting | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trotting | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 trotting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot away | past · progressive | that grey forms | in the distance; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent what=Theme in distance=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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