The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 196
So he hurried on his clothes as fast as possible, and ran away as if he were mad.
Who acts: smallest · What happens: hurry, run away, be · To what, where: clothes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smallest), 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 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 clothes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 hurried | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 possible | mark |
| 10 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fast | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 mad | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 mad | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mad | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mad | cop |
| 19 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ran | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | smallest = small | smallest's clothes | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on clothes=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run away | past | smallest = small not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | smallest = small | mad property | tree rules |
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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