The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 92
He got plenty to run for, too, for all the hunters aimed at him, and tried to shoot him, and the dogs barked and ran after him wherever they got wind of him.
Who acts: Troll, plenty, hunters, dogs · What happens: get, run, aim, try, shoot, bark · To what, where: plenty, Troll, wind
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Troll, plenty, hunters, dogs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 got | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 run | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 too | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 aimed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 aimed | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 hunters | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hunters | det |
| 13 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 aimed | nsubj |
| 14 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 aimed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tried | cc |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 shoot | mark |
| 21 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shoot | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 barked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 barked | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dogs | det |
| 26 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 barked | nsubj |
| 27 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ran | cc |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 barked | conj |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ran | obl |
| 32 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 got | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 got | nsubj |
| 34 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 ran | advcl |
| 35 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 got | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 wind | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Troll | plenty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | aim | past | all hunters | at Troll | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | try | past | Troll not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | shoot not said to happen | to-infinitive | Troll not said here | Troll | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bark | past | the dogs | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | run | past | the dogs not said here | after Troll | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | get | past | dogs = dog | wind of Troll | wherever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | wind | Troll | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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