The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 37
And he came out, and made a stand as the dogs rushed on him, driven on by the men.
Who acts: Pryderi, dogs · What happens: come out, make, rush, drive on · To what, where: stand
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stand | det |
| 9 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 rushed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dogs | det |
| 12 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rushed | nsubj |
| 13 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rushed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 driven | punct |
| 17 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 rushed | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 driven | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 men | det |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 driven | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Pryderi | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Pryderi not said here | a stand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stand=Product | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | the dogs | on Pryderi | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | drive on | participle | the dogs not said here | by the men | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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