The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 121
The boar pursued him into the church, but the tailor skipped round to the door, and closed it securely.
Who acts: boar, tailor · What happens: pursue, skip, close · To what, where: tailor, church, door, boar
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 (boar, tailor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boar | det |
| 2 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pursued | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pursued | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 skipped | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 skipped | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tailor | det |
| 11 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skipped | nsubj |
| 12 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pursued | conj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 skipped | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skipped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 closed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 closed | cc |
| 19 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pursued | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 closed | obj |
| 21 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 19 closed | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the boar | tailor | the church | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into church=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | skip | past | the tailor | the door | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | |||
| 3 | close | past | boar | securely property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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