The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 37

The Magician’s servants hurried after the fresh tracks, but when they came to the bridge, they stood, not knowing which road to take, as the footprints stopped suddenly, and there were three paths for them to choose from.

Who acts: servants, footprints, three paths, paths · What happens: hurry, come, stand, not know, take, stop · To what, where: bridge, road

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, footprints, three paths, paths), 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 Magician	det
2	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servants	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Magician	case
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurried	nsubj
5	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 tracks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tracks	det
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tracks	amod
9	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 stood	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 bridge	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bridge	det
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurried	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knowing	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 knowing	advmod
23	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 stood	advcl
24	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knowing	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 road	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stopped	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 stopped	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 footprints	det
31	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 stopped	nsubj
32	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
33	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 stopped	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 were	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 were	cc
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 were	expl
37	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurried	conj
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 paths	nummod
39	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 were	nsubj
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 choose	mark
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 choose	nsubj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 choose	mark
43	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 paths	acl
44	from	from	ADP	_	43 choose	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurry	past	the Magician's servants			after the fresh tracks		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	servants = servant		the bridge			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location
3	stand	past	servants = servant					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not know	gerund	servants = servant not said here	which road				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus
5	take	to-infinitive	servants = servant not said here	which road not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	stop	past	the footprints				suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	be	past	three paths		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	choose	to-infinitive	paths = path					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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