The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 7
Finally, he caught sight of Hans coming along in this fashion, and was so frightened that he did not know what to do, but he shut the gate and put on the bar.
Who acts: squire, Hans · What happens: catch, come along, be, not know, do, shut · To what, where: sight, fashion, gate, bar, Hans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, Hans), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 caught | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Hans | case |
| 7 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 sight | nmod |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Hans | acl |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 8 coming | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fashion | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 fashion | det |
| 12 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 frightened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 frightened | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 frightened | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 frightened | advmod |
| 17 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 caught | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 frightened | advcl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 do | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 know | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shut | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 shut | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 shut | nsubj |
| 29 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gate | det |
| 31 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shut | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 put | cc |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 shut | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 bar | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bar | det |
| 36 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | squire | sight of Hans | finally property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | come along | gerund | Hans not said here | this fashion | along property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fashion=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | frightened property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | squire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | shut | past | squire | the gate | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | ||||
| 7 | put | participle | squire not said here | the bar | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on bar=Destination | ||||
| 8 | sight | Hans | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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