The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 32
The shuttle instantly escaped from her hand, and with one bound was out at the door.
Who acts: shuttle, one bound · What happens: escape, be · To what, where: hand, door
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shuttle, one bound), 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 shuttle | det |
| 2 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | nsubj |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 escaped | advmod |
| 4 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 out | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 out | cc |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 out | mark |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 bound | nummod |
| 12 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 out | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 out | cop |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 escaped | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 out | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | the shuttle | love's hand | instantly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | one bound | the door | out 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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