The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 1
After this, on a certain day, as Gwythyr was walking across a mountain he heard a grievous cry, and he hastened towards it.
Who acts: Gwythyr, this · What happens: walk, hear, hasten · To what, where: certain day, mountain, grievous cry, cry
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gwythyr, this), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 this | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walking | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 walking | mark |
| 10 | Gwythyr | Gwythyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walking | aux |
| 12 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 day | acl |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cry | det |
| 19 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cry | amod |
| 20 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hastened | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hastened | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hastened | nsubj |
| 24 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hastened | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Gwythyr | a certain day not said here | a mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme across mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Gwythyr | a grievous cry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hasten | past | this | cry | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination |
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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