The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 32
As soon as day dawned the children led him out, and he trotted over the snow into the wood.
Who acts: children, other · What happens: dawn, lead out, trot · To what, where: other, snow
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, other), 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 | 5 dawned | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 dawned | mark |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 children | det |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dawned | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 led | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trotted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trotted | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trotted | nsubj |
| 14 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dawned | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 snow | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 snow | det |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trotted | obl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trotted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past | day | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead out | past | the children | other | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trot | past | other | the snow | into the wood | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=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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