The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 34
One morning Pryderi and Manawyddan rose up to hunt, and loosened their dogs, which ran before them, till they came to a small bush.
Who acts: Pryderi, dogs · What happens: rise up, hunt, loosen, run, come · To what, where: dogs, small bush
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pryderi, dogs), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Manawyddan | cc |
| 5 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pryderi | conj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 rose | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hunt | mark |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rose | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loosened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 loosened | cc |
| 12 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 loosened | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ran | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 loosened | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 bush | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bush | det |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bush | amod |
| 27 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | Pryderi and Manawyddan | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | Pryderi and Manawyddan not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | loosen | past | Pryderi and Manawyddan not said here | shoes's dogs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run | past | shoes's dogs | before shoes = shoe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | come | past | dogs = dog | a small bush | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bush=Initial_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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