The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 54
And he rushed out of the house as if he were running after some one, whom no one else saw.
Who acts: man, one · What happens: rush out, run, see · To what, where: house, one
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one), 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 | _ | 3 rushed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 running | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 running | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 running | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 running | aux |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rushed | advcl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 running | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 saw | obj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | else | else | ADV | _ | 19 one | advmod |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | past | man | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | run | past · progressive | man | after some one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | no one | some one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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