The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 59
Esben caught it at once, put it into the bag, and hurried off before the witch caught sight of him; but the next moment she came running, and shouted after him, ‘ I Hey is that you, Esben.?’
Who acts: Esben, witch, next moment, I · What happens: catch, put, hurry off, come, run, shout · To what, where: dove, bag, sight, king
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, witch, next moment, I), 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 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caught | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 caught | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 caught | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 bag | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bag | det |
| 11 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hurried | cc |
| 14 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 put | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 hurried | compound:prt |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 caught | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 witch | det |
| 18 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | nsubj |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurried | advcl |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sight | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 moment | det |
| 26 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moment | amod |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | nsubj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 30 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 came | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shouted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shouted | cc |
| 33 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 shouted | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 you | punct |
| 37 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 you | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 you | nsubj |
| 39 | Hey | Hey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 you | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 you | cop |
| 41 | that | that | ADP | _ | 42 you | case |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 shouted | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Esben | punct |
| 44 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | parataxis |
| 45 | .? | .? | PUNCT | _ | 44 Esben | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Esben | dove | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Esben not said here | dove | the bag | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 3 | hurry off | participle | Esben not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | past | the witch | sight of king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the next moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | run | gerund | the next moment not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | shout speech: express | past | Esben not said here | after king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is | present | I | that you | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | sight | king | nom sight «cognition 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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