The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 132
She ran as far as her legs would carry her, and as evening approached she saw a little house, and she stepped inside to rest.
Who acts: SNOWDROP, legs, evening · What happens: run, carry, approach, see, step, rest · To what, where: SNOWDROP, little house
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 (SNOWDROP, legs, evening), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ran | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 carry | aux |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 far | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 approached | mark |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 approached | nsubj |
| 15 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | advcl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stepped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stepped | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stepped | nsubj |
| 24 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 25 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 24 stepped | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 rest | mark |
| 27 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 stepped | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | SNOWDROP | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | would | SNOWDROP's legs | SNOWDROP | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | approach | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | SNOWDROP | a little house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | step | past | SNOWDROP | inside property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | rest | to-infinitive | SNOWDROP not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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