English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 43
And they hadn't got but three fields away when they looked back and saw the giant walking along at top speed after them.
Who acts: eggs · What happens: not get, look back, see · To what, where: giant walking, top speed
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eggs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 three | cc |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 fields | nummod |
| 8 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 away | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 looked | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walking | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 walking | amod |
| 18 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 saw | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 speed | case |
| 21 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 speed | amod |
| 22 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | past · perfect | eggs = egg | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look back | past | eggs = egg | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | eggs = egg not said here | the giant walking | top speed | after eggs = egg | along property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer walking=Stimulus |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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