The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 5
When he reached the edge of it he got out of his cart and walked beside it.
Who acts: back · What happens: reach, get out, walk · To what, where: edge, cart
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 edge | det |
| 5 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 edge | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cart | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cart | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | conj |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | back | the edge of edge | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent edge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | back | back's cart | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | back not said here | edge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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