The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 46
In a moment the mouse was sound and whole, and after thanking the kind physician it scampered away over the ploughed furrows.
Who acts: mouse · What happens: be, thank, scamper away, plough · To what, where: sound, kind physician, ploughed furrows
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sound | cop |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whole | cc |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sound | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scampered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scampered | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 thanking | mark |
| 13 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 scampered | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 physician | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 physician | amod |
| 16 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thanking | obj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 scampered | nsubj |
| 18 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sound | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 scampered | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 furrows | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 furrows | det |
| 22 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 furrows | amod |
| 23 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scampered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the mouse | sound | moment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the mouse not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | gerund | mouse not said here | the kind physician | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Theme | ||||
| 4 | scamper away | past | mouse | the ploughed furrows | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over furrow=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | plough | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent 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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