The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 28
But when Ritter Red saw that there was no longer any danger afoot, he lost no time in creeping down from the tree.
Who acts: Ritter, danger · What happens: see, be, lose, creep down · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ritter, danger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ritter | flat |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 danger | advmod |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 danger | det |
| 12 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 13 | afoot | afoot | ADV | _ | 12 danger | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 creeping | mark |
| 20 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 lost | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 creeping | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 creeping | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Ritter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | any danger | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | danger | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | creep down | gerund | danger not said here | the tree | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=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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