The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 55
The barber, determined not to lose his razor, pursued the man, and they both continued running at full speed till they had got well out of the town, when all of a sudden the man fell head foremost down a precipice, and never was seen again.
Who acts: barber, people, man · What happens: determine, not lose, pursue, continue, run, get · To what, where: barber, razor, man, full speed, town, head
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 (barber, people, man), 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 barber | det |
| 2 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 barber | acl |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lose | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lose | mark |
| 7 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 razor | nmod:poss |
| 9 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lose | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 barber | punct |
| 11 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pursued | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 continued | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 continued | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 continued | nsubj |
| 17 | both | both | ADV | _ | 18 continued | advmod |
| 18 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pursued | parataxis |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 continued | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 speed | case |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 speed | amod |
| 22 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 running | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 got | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 got | aux |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 continued | advcl |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 town | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 town | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 town | det |
| 31 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 all | punct |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 all | advmod |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 town | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 sudden | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 sudden | det |
| 37 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 all | nmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | nsubj |
| 40 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 all | acl:relcl |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | obj |
| 42 | foremost | foremost | ADV | _ | 40 fell | advmod |
| 43 | down | down | ADP | _ | 45 precipice | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 precipice | det |
| 45 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 foremost | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 seen | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 seen | cc |
| 48 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 50 seen | advmod |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 seen | aux:pass |
| 50 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pursued | advcl |
| 51 | again | again | ADV | _ | 50 seen | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | participle | the barber not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not lose | to-infinitive | barber's razor | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pursue | past | the barber | the man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | people | both property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run | gerund | people not said here | full speed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | get | past · perfect | people | the town | well property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out town=Destination | |||
| 7 | fall | past | the man | head | foremost property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient head=Result | |||
| 8 | not see | past · passive | the barber not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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