The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 96
And it ran neither fast nor slow, but both fast and slow together.
Who acts: bottom · What happens: run
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advmod |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 slow | cc |
| 7 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fast | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fast | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fast | cc |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 fast | advmod |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slow | cc |
| 13 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fast | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | bottom | fast, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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