The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 49
So off sprang the little Roe, and he felt quite well and happy in the free open air.
Who acts: King · What happens: spring, feel · To what, where: little Roe
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Roe | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Roe | amod |
| 6 | Roe | Roe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 well | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happy | cc |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 well | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 air | amod |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 air | amod |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the little Roe | off property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location roe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | King | in the free open air; well property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in air=Attribute |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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