The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 44
‘They are hurrying after us, and are already quite near.’
Who acts: hoofs · What happens: hurry, be
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 (hoofs), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurrying | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurrying | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurrying | aux |
| 4 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hurrying | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 near | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 near | cc |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 near | cop |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 near | advmod |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 near | advmod |
| 12 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 hurrying | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurrying | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | present · progressive | hoofs = hoof | after us | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | near property | tree rules |
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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