The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 3
Swiftly Owen put on his armour and went forth to meet the giant, and the lion followed at his heels.
Who acts: Owen, lion · What happens: put, go, meet, follow · To what, where: armour, giant, heels
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, lion), 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 armour | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 armour | nmod:poss |
| 6 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meet | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lion | det |
| 17 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | nsubj |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 heels | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heels | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 followed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Owen | Owen's armour | swiftly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on armour=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | Owen not said here | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | Owen not said here | the giant | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | the lion | Owen's heels | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=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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