The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 56
When the Fox saw him running by, he called out as loud as he could:
Who acts: Fox, musician · What happens: see, run by, call out · To what, where: musician
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 (Fox, musician), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 running | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 loud | advmod |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 could | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 loud | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Fox | musician | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run by | gerund | musician not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | past | musician | loud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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