The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 123
As soon as she had left the field, the whistle was sounded again, and back came long-legs-and-ears at a marvellous speed.
Who acts: lady · What happens: leave, sound, come · To what, where: field, whistle, long legs, marvellous speed
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 sounded | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 left | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 left | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 sounded | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 whistle | det |
| 11 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sounded | aux:pass |
| 13 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 sounded | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sounded | parataxis |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 legs | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | obj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 and | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ears | cc |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 and | punct |
| 25 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 legs | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 speed | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 speed | det |
| 28 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 speed | amod |
| 29 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | lady | the field | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sound | past · passive | the whistle | again | soon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | long legs and ears | a marvellous speed | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=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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