The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 119
Very soon afterwards, however, the youth let slip the third hare, and it set off and ran round and round the courtyard.
Who acts: youth, kitchen · What happens: let, slip, set off, run, round · To what, where: third hare, courtyard
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, kitchen), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 9 let | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 afterwards | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 let | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 hare | amod |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slip | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | conj |
| 21 | round | round | ADV | _ | 20 ran | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 round | cc |
| 23 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 set | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 courtyard | det |
| 25 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 round | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the youth | afterwards, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip | infinitive | the youth not said here | the third hare | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hare=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | past | kitchen not said here | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | round | infinitive | kitchen not said here | the courtyard | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent courtyard=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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