The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 52
Then he went on his way till, some miles further down the road, he found a fox caught in a trap.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go, find, catch · To what, where: miles, way, fox, trap
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | till | till | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 miles | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 miles | det |
| 10 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | further | further | ADV | _ | 14 road | advmod |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 miles | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fox | det |
| 19 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fox | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 trap | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 trap | det |
| 23 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caught | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | prince | some miles down the road | prince's way | then | till property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |
| 2 | find | past | prince | a fox | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | ||||
| 3 | catch | participle | a fox not said here | a trap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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