The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 100
The band lost no time in setting out for his house, and, as before, the shoemaker saw them coming from afar.
Who acts: band, time, shoemaker, companions · What happens: lose, set out, see, come · To what, where: companions, afar
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band, time, shoemaker, companions), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 setting | mark |
| 7 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 setting | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 setting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 before | case |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 saw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 before | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shoemaker | det |
| 19 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 afar | case |
| 24 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the band | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set out | gerund | no time not said here | for band's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the shoemaker | companions = companion | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | companions = companion not said here | afar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial_Location |
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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