The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 100
And thankfully, he ran off, and was not seen looking behind him.
Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: run off, not see, look
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker), 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 | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 2 | thankfully | thankfully | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seen | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seen | advmod |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ran | conj |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 seen | xcomp |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | shoemaker | thankfully property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | shoemaker not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | shoemaker not said here | behind shoemaker | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme |
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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