The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 142
He ran up the steps, with tears falling from his eyes, and crying:
Who acts: fox, tears · What happens: run up, fall, cry · To what, where: steps, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, tears), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 steps | det |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 falling | punct |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 falling | mark |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 falling | nsubj |
| 9 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 falling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crying | cc |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | fox | the steps | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | tears | fox's eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | fox 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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