The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 72
But in an instant the old woman had caught up the girl and swung her over her shoulders, and was running as fast as she could go to the edge of the forest, where she had left the prince.
Who acts: woman · What happens: catch up, swing, run, go, leave · To what, where: old woman, instant, woman, shoulders, edge, prince
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | aux |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 caught | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swung | cc |
| 14 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swung | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 shoulders | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swung | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 running | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 running | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 running | aux |
| 22 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 swung | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 fast | advmod |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 running | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 running | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 edge | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 edge | det |
| 31 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 forest | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 forest | det |
| 34 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 edge | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 left | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 left | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 left | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 left | aux |
| 39 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 forest | acl:relcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 prince | det |
| 41 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 left | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past · perfect · passive | the old woman | a instant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary girl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swing | past | woman | woman's shoulders | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme over shoulder=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run | past · progressive | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | could | woman | the edge of the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · perfect | woman | the prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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