The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 65
The old man caught up the hare, and they drove on to the place where the treasure was buried.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: catch up, drive, bury · To what, where: hare, place, treasure
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 (old man, man), 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 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 caught | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hare | det |
| 7 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drove | nsubj |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 buried | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 treasure | det |
| 18 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 buried | aux:pass |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | participle | the old man | the hare | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | man | the place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | the treasure | vn put-9.1-1 «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 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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