The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 35
They just had to run after him right or left as best they could.
Who acts: goose · What happens: have, run, leave
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goose), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 run | obl |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 left | advmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 run | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 best | case |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 left | parataxis |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 best | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | goose | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | goose not said here | after Dullhead | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | goose not said here | right property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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