The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 12
At last he perceived a narrow foot-path, which he eagerly followed and found that it led him to a small hut.
Who acts: man, path · What happens: perceive, follow, find, lead · To what, where: narrow foot path, last, man, small hut · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, path), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perceived | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 perceived | nsubj |
| 4 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 6 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 path | amod |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 path | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 foot | punct |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perceived | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 followed | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 14 followed | advmod |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 path | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 followed | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 led | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 led | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 hut | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hut | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hut | amod |
| 24 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | man | a narrow foot path | last | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | follow | past | man | a narrow foot path | eagerly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | man not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lead | past | path | man | a small hut | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hut=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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