The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 21
The donkey did not wait for him to get up, but ran away as fast as she could and was lost in the forest.
Who acts: donkey · What happens: not wait, get up, run away, lose · To what, where: forest
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 donkey | det |
| 2 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wait | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 get | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 fast | advmod |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 ran | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fast | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lost | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ran | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lost | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | the donkey | for lion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get up | to-infinitive | the donkey not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | run away | past | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | the forest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in forest=Eventuality |
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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