The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 1
As he now rode all alone through a forest there met him a fox, who greeted him in a friendly fashion, and asked him where he was going, and on what errand he was bent.
Who acts: he, fox · What happens: ride, meet, greet, ask, go, bend · To what, where: forest, him, fox, friendly fashion, errand
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 rode | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rode | advmod |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 alone | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 met | advmod |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 greeted | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 greeted | nsubj |
| 17 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fox | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 greeted | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fashion | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fashion | det |
| 21 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fashion | amod |
| 22 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 greeted | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 asked | iobj |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 going | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 going | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 going | aux |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 asked | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 what | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 what | cc |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 what | case |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 going | obl |
| 35 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 bent | aux:pass |
| 38 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 what | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | he | a forest | now | alone property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | meet | past | he not said here | him = he | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | a fox | fox | a friendly fashion | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | he not said here | fox | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | fox | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on what=Location | |||||
| 6 | bend | past · passive | errand | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
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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