The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 71
He took aim, and was about to fire when the stag bounded away.
Who acts: Meantime, stag · What happens: take, be, bound away · To what, where: aim, about fire
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, stag), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fire | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fire | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fire | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fire | amod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fire | mark |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | parataxis |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 bounded | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stag | det |
| 12 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bounded | nsubj |
| 13 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fire | acl:relcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 bounded | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Meantime | aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | about fire | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bound away | participle | the stag | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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