The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 68
I pushed on without pausing, and ere long I saw the stranger coming towards me, and leading a fine stag.
Who acts: I, stranger · What happens: push on, pause, see, come, lead · To what, where: stranger, fine stag
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stranger), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 pushed | advmod |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 pausing | mark |
| 5 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pushed | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 8 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stranger | det |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stranger | acl |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 coming | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leading | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leading | cc |
| 19 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stag | det |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stag | amod |
| 22 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leading | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push on | past | I | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pause | gerund | I not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | I | the stranger | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come | gerund | the stranger not said here | towards me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | lead | gerund | I not said here | a fine stag | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme |
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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