The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 95
The young man hurried home as fast as possible, and reached the cottage before evening.
Who acts: young man · What happens: hurry, reach · To what, where: cottage
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 hurried | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 hurried | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 possible | mark |
| 9 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fast | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reached | cc |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurried | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 evening | case |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | the young man | fast, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the young man not said here | the cottage | evening | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme |
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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