The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 112

Sometimes she would see him on a hill-top, and then would hasten after him, hoping to catch him.

Who acts: wife · What happens: see, hasten, hope, catch · To what, where: hoodie, hill top

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 see	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 top	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 top	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hill	punct
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hasten	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hasten	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 hasten	advmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hasten	aux
15	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hasten	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hoping	punct
19	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hasten	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 catch	mark
21	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hoping	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 catch	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	wife	hoodie	a hill top		sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	hasten	would	wife not said here			after hoodie; then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	hope	gerund	wife not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here	hoodie				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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