The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 7
So off they started through fields and meadows, over hedges and ditches, and walked the whole day long, and when it rained sister said:
Who acts: crusts, it, sister · What happens: start, walk, rain, say · To what, where: fields · 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 (crusts, it, sister), 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 | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 started | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 fields | case |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 started | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 meadows | cc |
| 8 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fields | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hedges | punct |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 hedges | case |
| 11 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 started | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ditches | cc |
| 13 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hedges | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walked | cc |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 walked | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rained | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rained | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 rained | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rained | nsubj |
| 25 | rained | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rained | parataxis |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | crusts = crust | fields and meadows | over hedges and ditches | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | walk | past | crusts = crust not said here | day | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | rain | past | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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