The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 70
Full of wrath he rushed at the mice, but he could no more come up with them than if they had been gnats, or birds of the air, save one only which lingered behind the rest, and this mouse Manawyddan came up with.
Who acts: castle, mice, mouse · What happens: rush, come up, be, save, linger · To what, where: wrath, one, rest
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 (castle, mice, mouse), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 come | advcl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 wrath | case |
| 3 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rushed | nsubj |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrath | acl:relcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 mice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mice | det |
| 8 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rushed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 gnats | case |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 gnats | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gnats | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gnats | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 gnats | cop |
| 24 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 come | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 birds | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 birds | cc |
| 27 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gnats | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 air | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 air | det |
| 30 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 birds | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 save | punct |
| 32 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | parataxis |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 save | obj |
| 34 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 lingered | advmod |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 lingered | nsubj |
| 36 | lingered | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 one | acl:relcl |
| 37 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 39 rest | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rest | det |
| 39 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lingered | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 came | cc |
| 42 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 mouse | det |
| 43 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 came | nsubj |
| 44 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 mouse | appos |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 lingered | conj |
| 46 | up | up | ADV | _ | 45 came | advmod |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 came | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | castle | wrath not said here | at the mice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme at mouse=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come up | could | castle | with mice = mouse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | mice = mouse | than gnats or birds of the air | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 5 | linger | past | the rest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind rest=Location | |||||
| 6 | come up | past | this mouse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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