The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 30
At last the dawn broke, and the servants rushed to his room, crying: “Paperarello!
Who acts: dawn, servants · What happens: break, rush, cry · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dawn, servants), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 broke | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dawn | det |
| 4 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rushed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rushed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 servants | det |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rushed | nsubj |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broke | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 room | nmod:poss |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rushed | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paperarello | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paperarello | punct |
| 18 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paperarello | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the dawn | last | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | the servants | to servant's room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | the servants not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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