Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 66
But just then a little Indian girl rushed in.
What happens: rush in · To what, where: little Indian girl
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 girl | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 girl | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 girl | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 girl | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rushed | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush in | participle | a little Indian girl not said here | 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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