The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 51
And the Prince answered, ‘They are pursuing us hotly and are quite close.’
Who acts: Prince, hoofs · What happens: answer, pursue, be · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pursuing | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 pursuing | punct |
| 7 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pursuing | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pursuing | aux |
| 9 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pursuing | obj |
| 11 | hotly | hotly | ADV | _ | 9 pursuing | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 close | cc |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 close | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 close | advmod |
| 15 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pursuing | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 close | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pursue | present · progressive | hoofs = hoof | us | hotly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | hoofs = hoof not said here | close 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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