The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 24
Presently a fox slunk through the trees.
What happens: slink · To what, where: fox, trees
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 fox | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | slunk | slink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fox | acl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slunk | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slink | participle | a fox not said here | the trees | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through 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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