The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 201
Quick as thought the lame mouse snatched up the precious talisman and carried it off to the boat.
Who acts: lame mouse · What happens: think, snatch up, carry off · To what, where: lame mouse, precious talisman, talisman, boat
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lame 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Quick | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 5 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouse | amod |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obj |
| 7 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mouse | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 snatched | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 talisman | det |
| 10 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 talisman | amod |
| 11 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snatched | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 carried | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boat | det |
| 18 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the lame mouse | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mouse=Theme | |||||
| 2 | snatch up | participle | the lame mouse not said here | the precious talisman | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talisman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past | talisman | the boat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to boat=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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