The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 45
And, as he spoke, the Queen saw the lions, which were running down a hill toward them.
Who acts: Dwarf, Queen, lions · What happens: speak, see, run down · To what, where: lions, hill · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, Queen, lions), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 spoke | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lions | det |
| 11 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 running | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 running | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 running | aux |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 lions | acl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 running | obl |
| 19 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 running | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Dwarf | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the Queen | the lions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run down | past · progressive | the lions | a hill | toward lions = lion | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hill=Theme toward they=Trajectory |
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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