The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 250
He leapt down from the tree and rushed to a stream that flowed close by.
Who acts: John, stream · What happens: leapt down, rush, flow · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, stream), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leapt | nsubj |
| 2 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 leapt | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leapt | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rushed | cc |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 leapt | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stream | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stream | det |
| 11 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 flowed | nsubj |
| 13 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stream | acl:relcl |
| 14 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 flowed | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 close | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt down | past | John | the tree | down property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rush | participle | John not said here | to a stream result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stream=Result | ||||
| 3 | flow | past | a stream | close property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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