The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 50
The King and his huntsmen soon saw the beautiful creature and started in pursuit, but they could not come up with it, and whenever they thought they were sure to catch it, it bounded off to one side into the bushes and disappeared.
Who acts: King, huntsmen, creature · What happens: see, start, not come up, think, be, catch · To what, where: beautiful creature, pursuit, creature, bushes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, huntsmen, creature), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 huntsmen | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 huntsmen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | advmod |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pursuit | case |
| 14 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saw | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 come | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bounded | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bounded | cc |
| 26 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 thought | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 thought | nsubj |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 bounded | advcl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sure | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sure | cop |
| 31 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 catch | mark |
| 33 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 sure | xcomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 catch | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thought | punct |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bounded | nsubj |
| 37 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | parataxis |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 bounded | compound:prt |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 side | case |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 side | nummod |
| 41 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bounded | obl |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 bushes | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 bushes | det |
| 44 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bounded | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 disappeared | cc |
| 46 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 bounded | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King and King's huntsmen | the beautiful creature | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | start | past | the King and King's huntsmen not said here | pursuit | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not come up | could | huntsmen = huntsman | with pursuit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | huntsmen = huntsman | whenever property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | huntsmen = huntsman | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | catch | to-infinitive | huntsmen = huntsman not said here | creature | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bound off | past | creature | the bushes | to one side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination | |||
| 8 | disappear | past | creature not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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