The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 16
Then he ran along behind the mounds, and met the man at the other end of them.
Who acts: boy · What happens: run along, meet · To what, where: mounds, man, other end
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 mounds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mounds | det |
| 7 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 met | cc |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 end | amod |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 end | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run along | past | boy | the mounds | then | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind mound=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | meet | past | boy not said here | the man | at the other end of mounds | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
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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