The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 44
The youth departed, weeping, and met the little hare, who was munching wild thyme.
Who acts: youth, little hare · What happens: depart, weep, meet, munch · To what, where: little hare, wild thyme
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, little hare), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 departed | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 met | cc |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hare | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hare | amod |
| 11 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 munching | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 munching | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 munching | aux |
| 15 | munching | munch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hare | acl |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thyme | amod |
| 17 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 munching | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | the youth | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | the youth not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | the youth not said here | the little hare | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | munch | past · progressive | the little hare | wild thyme | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyme=Patient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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