The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 12
As soon as she caught sight of the youth, who was running after the foals till the perspiration streamed down his face, she cried:
Who acts: woman, sight, perspiration · What happens: catch, run, stream down, cry, sight · To what, where: sight, face, youth
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, sight, perspiration), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 cried | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 caught | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cried | advcl |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 youth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 running | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 running | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 running | aux |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sight | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 foals | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foals | det |
| 16 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 running | obl |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 perspiration | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 perspiration | det |
| 19 | perspiration | perspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foals | nmod |
| 20 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 perspiration | acl |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 streamed | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 streamed | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cried | nsubj |
| 26 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | woman | sight of the youth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past · progressive | sight of the youth | after the foals till the perspiration | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stream down | participle | the perspiration not said here | wood's face | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | woman | soon property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sight | the youth | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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