The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 1
One day when he was out hunting a hare sprang up at his feet, and ran for some way in front of him in the open field.
Who acts: he · What happens: hunt, spring up, run · To what, where: hare, feet, front
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 hunting | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hunting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunting | aux |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 was | compound:prt |
| 7 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hare | det |
| 9 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunting | obj |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hare | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 sprang | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sprang | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 front | case |
| 22 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 front | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 field | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 field | det |
| 27 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 field | amod |
| 28 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | he | a hare | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring up | participle | a hare not said here | hare's feet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||||
| 3 | run | past | front of hare | day | for some way; in the open field | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=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 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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