The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 22
Between his fright and his hurry he was almost dead of exhaustion when he reached his own village, where the nyamatsanes could not follow him, because of their enemies the dogs, which swarmed over all the roads.
Who acts: chase, nyamatsanes, enemies · What happens: be, reach, not follow, swarm, fright, hurry · To what, where: own village, chase, roads
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 (chase, nyamatsanes, enemies), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 fright | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fright | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hurry | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hurry | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fright | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 dead | advmod |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 exhaustion | case |
| 12 | exhaustion | exhaustion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | obl |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 village | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 village | amod |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 follow | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 follow | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 nyamatsanes | det |
| 22 | nyamatsanes | nyamatsane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 follow | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 follow | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 follow | advmod |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 village | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 follow | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 enemies | punct |
| 28 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 31 enemies | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 because | fixed |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 31 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 follow | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 dogs | det |
| 33 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 enemies | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 swarmed | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 swarmed | nsubj |
| 36 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 enemies | conj |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 roads | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 roads | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 roads | det |
| 40 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 swarmed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chase | between chase's fright and chase's hurry; of exhaustion; almost, dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | chase | chase's own village | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not follow | could | the nyamatsanes | chase | because nyamatsanes's enemies and the dogs | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | swarm | past | nyamatsanes's enemies and the dogs | all roads | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over road=Location | ||||
| 5 | fright | chase | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | hurry | chase | nom hurry «state transitive»: poss=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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