The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 61
Then a dreadful idea came over him, and he ran to the chamber where the needles had been kept, but it was quite empty.
Who acts: dreadful idea, prince, idea · What happens: come, run, keep, be · To what, where: needles
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful idea, prince, idea), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 3 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 idea | amod |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 chamber | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chamber | det |
| 14 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 kept | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 needles | det |
| 17 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 kept | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 kept | aux:pass |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 empty | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 empty | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 empty | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 empty | cop |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 empty | advmod |
| 26 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a dreadful idea | then | over prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | run | past | prince | to the chamber result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to chamber=Result | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · perfect · passive | the needles | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | idea | empty property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/19/61/