The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 43
This time a little hare came running up at the sound.
Who acts: little hare · What happens: come, run up · To what, where: sound
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 (little hare), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hare | amod |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 running | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sound | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a little hare | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run up | gerund | a little hare not said here | the sound | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=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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