The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 48
He rushed to the door, hoping to escape that way; but the Groac’h, who had heard everything, met him on the threshold.
Who acts: Houarn, Groac’h · What happens: rush, hope, escape, hear, meet · To what, where: way, everything, Houarn, threshold
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn, Groac’h), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hoping | punct |
| 7 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rushed | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 escape | mark |
| 9 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hoping | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escape | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 met | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 met | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Groac’h | det |
| 15 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 met | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 Groac’h | acl:relcl |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 heard | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Groac’h | punct |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 met | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 threshold | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 threshold | det |
| 26 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | Houarn | to the door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | Houarn not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | Houarn not said here | that way | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | the Groac’h | everything | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | meet | past | the Groac’h | Houarn | the threshold | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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