The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 25
The creature fell heavily on the ground, and out of its side sprang a little hare, which ran like the wind along the river bank.
Who acts: creature, little hare · What happens: fall, spring, run · To what, where: ground, little hare, side, river bank
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, little hare), 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 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprang | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sprang | cc |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprang | obl |
| 14 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hare | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hare | amod |
| 17 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprang | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hare | acl:relcl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 wind | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 27 bank | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bank | det |
| 26 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bank | compound |
| 27 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the creature | the ground | heavily property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | |||
| 2 | spring | past | the creature not said here | a little hare | creature's side | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hare=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | past | a little hare | the river bank | like the wind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=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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