The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 76

“Here we are! here we are!” answered the babies, all running to meet him.

Who acts: we, babies, all · What happens: be, answer, run, meet · To what, where: baby · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, babies, all), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 answered	parataxis
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Here	advmod
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 babies	det
13	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 running	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 running	nsubj
16	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 babies	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 meet	mark
18	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 running	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meet	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	we		here	here property	tree rules
2	answer speech: express	past	the babies				tree rules
3	run	gerund	all				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	meet	to-infinitive	all not said here	baby			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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