The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 70
The old man ran after him, but the dog reached a door, pushed it open, and ran in, the old man following him.
Who acts: old man, dog · What happens: run, reach, push, follow · To what, where: door, old man, man
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, dog), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pushed | punct |
| 15 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reached | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pushed | obj |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pushed | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 ran | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 26 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 man | acl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 following | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the old man | after dog | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the dog | a door | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push | past | the dog not said here | door | open property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | run | past | the old man not said here | the old man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | the old man not said here | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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