The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 60
After them ran the tailors, catching, jumping, climbing, but all to no purpose!
Who acts: clothes · What happens: run, catch, jump, climb · To what, where: tailors
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 ran | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tailors | det |
| 5 | tailors | tailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 catching | punct |
| 7 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jumping | punct |
| 9 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 catching | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 climbing | punct |
| 11 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 jumping | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 all | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 all | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ran | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 purpose | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 purpose | det |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 all | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | clothes | the tailors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Agent | ||||
| 2 | catch | gerund | clothes not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | jump | gerund | clothes not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | climb | gerund | clothes not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/25/60/