The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 89
The hands hastened to meet him, and led the wooden horse off to the stable, while he hurried in to find the White Cat.
Who acts: hands, turret · What happens: hasten, meet, lead off, hurry in, find · To what, where: hands, turret, wooden horse, stable, White Cat
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, turret), 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 hands | det |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 led | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hands | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 meet | mark |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 led | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 stable | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stable | det |
| 16 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurried | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 hurried | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hurried | nsubj |
| 20 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hurried | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hurried | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Cat | det |
| 25 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Cat | amod |
| 26 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the hands not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | turret | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | lead off | past | the hands | the wooden horse | the stable | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to stable=Destination | |||
| 4 | hurry in | past | turret | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | turret not said here | the White Cat | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
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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