The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 80
This they did, but no sooner had they walked a short distance than they met again.
Who acts: This, feathers · What happens: do, walk, meet · To what, where: short distance
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, feathers), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 sooner | det |
| 7 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 walked | advmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | aux |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 distance | amod |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obj |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 met | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | advcl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 met | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | feathers = feather | a short distance | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | meet | past | feathers = feather | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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