The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 59
Then the huntsman stole after it as far as the little house, and heard it call out, ‘My sister dear, open; I’m here,’ and he saw the door open and close immediately the fawn had run in.
Who acts: huntsman, collar, I, King · What happens: steal, hear, call out, be, see, run · To what, where: collar, door, fawn
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 (huntsman, collar, I, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stole | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 huntsman | det |
| 3 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | nsubj |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stole | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 stole | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 far | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stole | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | obj |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 heard | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 call | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dear | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 dear | punct |
| 21 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sister | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dear | nsubj |
| 23 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 call | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 open | punct |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dear | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’m | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 ’m | nsubj |
| 28 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stole | parataxis |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 ’m | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’m | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’m | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 saw | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 saw | nsubj |
| 34 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stole | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 door | det |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 saw | obj |
| 37 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 saw | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 close | cc |
| 39 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 open | conj |
| 40 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 44 run | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 fawn | det |
| 42 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 run | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 run | aux |
| 44 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 open | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADV | _ | 44 run | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | the huntsman | after collar; then | far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past | the huntsman not said here | collar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | infinitive | collar not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | present | I | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | King | the door | open property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | run | past · perfect · passive | the fawn | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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