The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 48
Then he trotted gaily to the house, the hare following after with his lighter bundle.
Who acts: hare · What happens: trot, follow · To what, where: hare
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 trotted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trotted | nsubj |
| 3 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trotted | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gaily | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hare | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hare | det |
| 10 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trotted | obl |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 hare | acl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 bundle | case |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bundle | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 bundle | amod |
| 16 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 following | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | past | hare | the hare | then | gaily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the hare not said here | after hare's lighter bundle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after bundle=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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