The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 85
No sooner did the little creature feel itself on the ground than it lay back its ears and flew through the wood like an arrow from a bow, closely pursued by the wild beasts, and the Prince was left alone.
Who acts: little creature, hare · What happens: feel, lie back, fly, pursue, leave · To what, where: hare, ground, ears, wood, bow, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (little creature, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 feel | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feel | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 creature | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creature | amod |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 feel | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feel | obl |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 lay | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feel | advcl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lay | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lay | conj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 arrow | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 arrow | det |
| 25 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 bow | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bow | det |
| 28 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pursued | punct |
| 30 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 31 pursued | advmod |
| 31 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 bow | acl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 beasts | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 beasts | det |
| 34 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 beasts | amod |
| 35 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pursued | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 left | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 left | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Prince | det |
| 39 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 left | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 left | aux:pass |
| 41 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 feel | parataxis |
| 42 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 left | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · do-support | the little creature | hare | the ground | soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Theme on ground=Location | ||
| 2 | lie back | past | hare | hare's ears | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | hare not said here | the wood | like a arrow; from a bow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | |||
| 4 | pursue | participle | a bow not said here | by the wild beasts; closely property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by beast=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | the Prince | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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