The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 72
Then he started off in pursuit, making his way through bushes and briars, and never stopped all day; but in the evening the stag entirely disappeared, and when golden lad came to look about him he found himself just opposite a hut in which lived a witch.
Who acts: stag, golden lad, hut · What happens: start off, make, not stop, disappear, come, look · To what, where: pursuit, way, bushes, hut, witch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stag, golden lad, hut), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 started | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pursuit | case |
| 6 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 started | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 bushes | case |
| 12 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 making | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 briars | cc |
| 14 | briars | briar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bushes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stopped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stopped | cc |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 stopped | advmod |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 disappeared | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 disappeared | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 evening | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 evening | det |
| 25 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 disappeared | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stag | det |
| 27 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 disappeared | nsubj |
| 28 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 29 disappeared | advmod |
| 29 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 came | cc |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 came | mark |
| 33 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lad | amod |
| 34 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 look | mark |
| 37 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 came | xcomp |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 look | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 found | nsubj |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 look | advcl |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 opposite | nsubj |
| 43 | just | just | ADV | _ | 44 opposite | advmod |
| 44 | opposite | opposite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 found | ccomp |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 hut | det |
| 46 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 opposite | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 which | case |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 lived | nsubj |
| 49 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 hut | acl:relcl |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 witch | det |
| 51 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 lived | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | stag | pursuit | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | stag not said here | stag's way | bushes and briars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 3 | not stop | past | stag not said here | day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | disappear | past | the stag | evening | entirely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | come | past | golden lad | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | golden lad not said here | about stag | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | past | stag | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | opposite | past | stag | a hut | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | live | past | a hut | a witch | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme witch=Location |
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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