The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 118
They espied the Ogre, who went at one step from mountain to mountain, and over rivers as easily as the narrowest kennels.
Who acts: children, Ogre · What happens: espy, go · To what, where: Ogre, mountain
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Ogre), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 espied | nsubj |
| 2 | espied | espy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ogre | det |
| 4 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 espied | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ogre | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 step | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 step | nummod |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mountain | case |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rivers | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rivers | cc |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 rivers | advmod |
| 18 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 espied | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 easily | advmod |
| 20 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 rivers | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 kennels | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kennels | det |
| 23 | narrowest | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 kennels | amod |
| 24 | kennels | kennel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 easily | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 espied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | espy | past | children = child | the Ogre | rivers obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ogre=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Ogre | mountain | at one step; to mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location to mountain=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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