English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 11
As soon as she heard him pass through the gallery, Lady Mary crept out of the door, down through the gateway, and ran home as fast as she could.
Who acts: sword, you, Lady Mary · What happens: hear, pass, creep out, run · To what, where: Fox, gallery, door, gateway
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, you, Lady Mary), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 pass | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pass | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 gallery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gallery | det |
| 10 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crept | punct |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mary | compound |
| 13 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | nsubj |
| 14 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pass | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gateway | punct |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 gateway | advmod |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 gateway | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gateway | det |
| 23 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crept | conj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 ran | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 fast | advmod |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 ran | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 could | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 could | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fast | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | sword | Fox | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pass | imperative | you not said here | the gallery | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gallery=Location | |||
| 3 | creep out | past | Lady Mary | the door | the gateway | tree rules | |||
| 4 | run | past | Lady Mary not said here | fast, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: «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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