The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 38
At last the hare caught sight of four hoofs in the air, and ran towards them.
What happens: catch, run, sight · To what, where: four hoofs
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sight | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sight | amod |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hoofs | case |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hoofs | nummod |
| 9 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sight | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hoofs | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sight | conj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ran | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | run | past | towards hoofs = hoof | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination | |||||
| 3 | sight | four hoofs in the air | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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