The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 95
The goose fluttered and skipped in front, and he ran after as fast as his little legs could carry him.
Who acts: goose, little legs · What happens: flutter, skip, run, carry · To what, where: goose, front, dwarf
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (goose, little legs), 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 | 2 goose | det |
| 2 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 goose | acl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 skipped | cc |
| 5 | skipped | skip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fluttered | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | after | after | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 ran | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 legs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 legs | amod |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | aux |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fast | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | participle | the goose not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | skip | participle | front | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | run | past | the goose | after, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | could | dwarf's little legs | dwarf | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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