The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 30
She ran to see what it was, and found her old friend the lion, wounded through and through, fast dying under a tree.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: run, see, find, wound, die · To what, where: old friend, tree
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 (Lion), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | xcomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friend | amod |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lion | det |
| 15 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wounded | punct |
| 17 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADV | _ | 17 wounded | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 through | cc |
| 20 | through | through | ADV | _ | 18 through | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fast | punct |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 23 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 fast | advcl |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dying | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Lion | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Lion not said here | Lion's old friend | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent friend=Theme lion=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | wound | past | Lion not said here | through property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | die | gerund | Lion not said here | a tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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