The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 22
Just then a hare came running across the field towards them.
Who acts: hare · What happens: come, run · To what, where: field
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 running | obl |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 running | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a hare | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | a hare not said here | the field | towards Brothers = brother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination |
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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