The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 35
At the bush, the dogs shrank away as if frightened, and returned to their masters, their hair brisling on their backs.
Who acts: dogs · What happens: shrink away, frighten, return
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 bush | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bush | det |
| 3 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shrank | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bush | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dogs | det |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shrank | nsubj |
| 7 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 shrank | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 frightened | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shrank | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shrank | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 masters | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 masters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 returned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brisling | punct |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brisling | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brisling | compound |
| 21 | brisling | brisling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 masters | appos |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 backs | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 backs | nmod:poss |
| 24 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 brisling | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shrank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink away | past | the dogs | at the bush; away property | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at bush=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | the dogs not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | return | past | the dogs not said here | to dogs's masters result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to master=Result |
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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