The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 110
A unicorn is running about loose in the wood, and doing much mischief; you must first catch it.”
Who acts: unicorn, you · What happens: run, do, catch · To what, where: much mischief, mischief
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unicorn, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 unicorn | det |
| 2 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | aux |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 loose | case |
| 6 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 running | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 doing | cc |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 running | conj |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mischief | amod |
| 14 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doing | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 catch | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 catch | aux |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 catch | advmod |
| 19 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 running | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 catch | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present · progressive | a unicorn | about loose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about loose=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | a unicorn not said here | much mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | catch | must | you | mischief | first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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