The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 38
This he bound to the other branch, and having carefully seen that his knots were all secure, he stepped off the ends of the branches, and they sprang back, leaving the poor Fox suspended in mid-air.
Who acts: This, knots, friend, poor Fox · What happens: bind, see, be, step off, spring back, leave · To what, where: ends, mid-air
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: who acts (This, knots, friend, poor Fox), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bound | nsubj |
| 3 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 branch | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 branch | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 branch | amod |
| 7 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bound | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 10 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 seen | aux |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 having | advmod |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bound | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 secure | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knots | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 secure | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 secure | cop |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 secure | advmod |
| 18 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seen | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stepped | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stepped | nsubj |
| 21 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bound | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 stepped | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ends | det |
| 24 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stepped | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 branches | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 branches | det |
| 27 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ends | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sprang | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sprang | cc |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sprang | nsubj |
| 31 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stepped | conj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 sprang | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 leaving | punct |
| 34 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sprang | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Fox | det |
| 36 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Fox | amod |
| 37 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 suspended | nsubj |
| 38 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 leaving | acl:relcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 mid-air | case |
| 40 | mid-air | mid-air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 suspended | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past | This | to the other branch | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to branch=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund · perfect | This not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | friend's knots | all, secure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | step off | past | friend | the ends of the branches | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location end=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spring back | past | knots = knot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | knots = knot not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | suspend | past | the poor Fox | mid-air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mid-air=Location |
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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