The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 57
As soon as it felt itself free, the laden goat trotted off as quickly as it could, and to this day nobody knows what became of it.
Who acts: blessing, nobody · What happens: feel, trot off, know, become · To what, where: blessing, laden goat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, nobody), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 felt | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 felt | obj |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 goat | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goat | det |
| 10 | laden | laden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goat | amod |
| 11 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 free | obl |
| 12 | trotted | trot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 goat | acl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 trotted | compound:prt |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 quickly | advmod |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 trotted | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 quickly | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knows | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knows | cc |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knows | obl |
| 24 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 knows | nsubj |
| 25 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 became | nsubj |
| 27 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 knows | ccomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 became | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | blessing | blessing | free, soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | |||
| 2 | trot off | participle | the laden goat not said here | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | present | nobody | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | become | past | of blessing | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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