The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 26
Soon after they saw a man driving a carriage furiously towards them.
Who acts: others, man · What happens: see, drive · To what, where: man, carriage
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 (others, man), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 saw | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 man | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 carriage | det |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driving | obj |
| 10 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 7 driving | advmod |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 driving | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | others = other | a man | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | drive | gerund | a man not said here | a carriage | towards others = other; furiously property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme towards they=Trajectory |
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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