The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 128

And as he turned away a young boar came running past, so he shot it, and brought its lungs and liver home to the Queen as a proof that Snowdrop was really dead.

Who acts: huntsman, Snowdrop · What happens: turn away, come, run past, shoot, bring, be · To what, where: young boar, boar, lungs, Queen, proof

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, Snowdrop), 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	_	9 came	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 turned	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	advcl
5	away	away	ADP	_	4 turned	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boar	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boar	amod
8	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
11	past	past	ADV	_	10 running	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shot	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 shot	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shot	nsubj
15	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shot	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brought	cc
19	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lungs	nmod:poss
21	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 brought	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 liver	cc
23	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lungs	conj
24	home	home	ADV	_	19 brought	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Queen	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Queen	det
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 proof	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 proof	det
30	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 dead	mark
32	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 dead	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
34	really	really	ADV	_	35 dead	advmod
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 proof	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn away	past	huntsman	a young boar			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme
2	come	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run past	gerund				past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shoot	past	huntsman	boar			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	bring	past		boar's lungs and liver	the Queen	as a proof; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lung=Theme to queen=Destination
6	is	past	Snowdrop	a proof not said here		dead property	tree rules

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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