Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 8
How glad master will be!" they thought, and ran as fast as their legs could carry them.
Who acts: rats, legs · What happens: be, run, carry · To what, where: rats · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rats, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 glad | advmod |
| 2 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 master | amod |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 be | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | cop |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 ran | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 carry | mark |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 legs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carry | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 carry | aux |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fast | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carry | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: other in a quote | infinitive | rats = rat | think property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run in a quote | past | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | could | rats's legs | rats = rat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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