The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 131
Of course, it wasn’t long in coming back again, like the others.
Who acts: course · What happens: not be, come back
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 (course), 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 7 long | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 long | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | cop |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 coming | mark |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 long | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 coming | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 coming | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 others | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 others | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 coming | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | course | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come back | gerund | course not said here | again | like the others | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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