The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 55
The little hare left him, and almost immediately the Porcelain Maiden arrived with her friends.
Who acts: little hare, Porcelain Maiden · What happens: leave, arrive · To what, where: father
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 (little hare, Porcelain Maiden), 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 | 3 hare | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hare | amod |
| 3 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arrived | cc |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 immediately | advmod |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 13 arrived | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Maiden | det |
| 11 | Porcelain | Porcelain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Maiden | compound |
| 12 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 friends | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 arrived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the little hare | father | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the Porcelain Maiden | with Maiden's friends; immediately property | 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 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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