The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 2
The hunter pursued it hotly for some time, and at last shot it dead.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: pursue, shoot · To what, where: field, last
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 (hunter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pursued | obj |
| 5 | hotly | hotly | ADV | _ | 3 pursued | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pursued | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shot | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shot | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shot | obl |
| 13 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pursued | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shot | obj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shot | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the hunter | field | time | hotly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | shoot | past | field | last | dead property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=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 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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