The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 70
So he went off into the forest, and before long a fine stag, such as he had seen in his dream, stopped just in front of him.
Who acts: Meantime · What happens: go off, long, see, stop, dream · To what, where: forest, fine stag, dream, front
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stopped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stopped | cc |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 long | mark |
| 11 | long | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 stopped | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stag | det |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stag | amod |
| 14 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 long | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 seen | mark |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 stag | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dream | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dream | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 25 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 front | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 front | case |
| 28 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stopped | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 front | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | Meantime | the forest | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | long | gerund | a fine stag | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Meantime | a fine stag not said here | Meantime's dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | stop | past | Meantime not said here | front of Meantime | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 5 | dream | Meantime | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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