The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 77
As soon as she was in sight he rushed to meet her, leaping and bounding like a real sheep.
Who acts: Miranda, King · What happens: be, rush, meet, leap, bound · To what, where: sight, Miranda
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miranda, King), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soon | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rushed | nsubj |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rushed | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meet | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaping | punct |
| 14 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 meet | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bounding | cc |
| 16 | bounding | bound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 leaping | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 sheep | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sheep | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sheep | amod |
| 20 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bounding | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Miranda | as sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | King | sight not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sight=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | King not said here | Miranda | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | leap | gerund | King not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bound | gerund | King not said here | like a real sheep | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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