The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 53
When the bear saw and heard this he turned right round and ran off as fast as his legs would carry him.
Who acts: bear, legs · What happens: see, hear, turn, run off, carry · To what, where: this, bear
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, legs), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 heard | cc |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turned | xcomp |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 ran | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 fast | advmod |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 ran | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 legs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 carry | aux |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fast | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the bear not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | bear | right, round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run off | past | bear not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry | would | bear's legs | bear | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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