The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 15
She hastened to the spot from which the noise came, and found it proceeded from a lion who lay stretched upon the ground.
Who acts: girl, noise · What happens: hasten, come, find, proceed, stretch · To what, where: spot, lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, noise), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 spot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hastened | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 came | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 noise | det |
| 9 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hastened | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 proceeded | nsubj |
| 15 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | ccomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 lion | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proceeded | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stretched | aux:pass |
| 21 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lion | acl:relcl |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stretched | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | girl | the spot | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the noise | the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | girl not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | proceed | past | noise | from a lion | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stretch | past · passive | a lion | upon the ground | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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