The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 76
They ran forward, and saw with horror that the eagle had pounced on their old friend the dwarf, and was about to carry him off.
Who acts: boulders, old friend · What happens: run, see, pounce, be, carry off · To what, where: eagle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boulders, old friend), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 horror | case |
| 8 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 pounced | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eagle | det |
| 11 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pounced | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pounced | aux |
| 13 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 friend | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 friend | amod |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pounced | obl:agent |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dwarf | det |
| 19 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pounced | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 about | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 about | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 about | cop |
| 23 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 carry | mark |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 about | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carry | obj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 carry | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | boulders = boulder | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | boulders = boulder not said here | with horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pounce | past · perfect · passive | boulders's old friend | the eagle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | carry off | to-infinitive | eagle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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