The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 21
They pursued him as fast as they could, but they found it impossible to overtake him, and he reached home in safety.
Who acts: beasts, horse · What happens: pursue, find, overtake, reach · To what, where: horse, castle, safety · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (beasts, horse), 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 pursued | nsubj |
| 2 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pursued | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 pursued | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fast | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pursued | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 found | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 overtake | mark |
| 16 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 impossible | csubj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 overtake | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reached | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pursued | conj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 reached | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 safety | case |
| 24 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | beasts = beast | horse | fast property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | beasts = beast | castle | impossible property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | overtake | to-infinitive | horse | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | horse | safety | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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