The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 9
The idiot hastily ran forward and hung the bowl round his neck from the chain which was attached to it, and took the lance in his hand.
Who acts: idiot · What happens: run, hang, attach, take · To what, where: bowl, chain, lance, hand
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idiot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 idiot | det |
| 2 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hung | cc |
| 7 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bowl | det |
| 9 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 chain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chain | det |
| 15 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 attached | aux:pass |
| 18 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 chain | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 attached | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lance | det |
| 25 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the idiot | forward, hastily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | the idiot not said here | the bowl | the chain | round idiot's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient | ||
| 3 | attach | past · passive | the chain | chain | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the idiot not said here | the lance | idiot's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lance=Value in hand=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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