The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 20

They sprang quickly to their feet and began to sniff the soil round the rock, in order to discover traces of his footsteps, and they galloped after him with terrific speed.

Who acts: nyamatsanes · What happens: spring, begin, sniff, discover, gallop · To what, where: feet, soil, traces

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nyamatsanes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 sprang	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprang	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sniff	mark
10	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soil	det
12	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sniff	obj
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 rock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sniff	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 discover	punct
17	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 discover	mark
18	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 in	fixed
19	to	to	PART	_	20 discover	mark
20	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sniff	conj
21	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 discover	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 footsteps	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 footsteps	nmod:poss
24	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 traces	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 galloped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 galloped	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 galloped	nsubj
28	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 galloped	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 speed	case
32	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 speed	amod
33	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 galloped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane		nyamatsanes's feet		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination
2	begin	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sniff	to-infinitive	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane not said here	the soil			round the rock	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
4	discover	to-infinitive	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane not said here	traces of man's footsteps				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic
5	gallop	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane			after man	with terrific speed	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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.

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