The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 124
The dog bounded off, but ran straight to the shoemaker.
Who acts: dog · What happens: bound off, run · To what, where: dog
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 (dog), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dog | acl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 bounded | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 shoemaker | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 shoemaker | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shoemaker | det |
| 11 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound off | participle | the dog not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | the dog | to the shoemaker result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shoemaker=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/17/124/