The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 89
Almost at the same moment her father rushed in and hunted round in every corner, crying out: “This place smells of men.
Who acts: father, place · What happens: rush in, hunt, cry out, smell · To what, where: corner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, place), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 moment | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 rushed | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hunted | cc |
| 11 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rushed | conj |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 hunted | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 corner | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 corner | det |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hunted | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 crying | compound:prt |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 smells | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 smells | punct |
| 21 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 smells | nsubj |
| 23 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 smells | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush in | past | Helga's father | moment | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | participle | Helga's father not said here | every corner | round property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | |||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | gerund | Helga's father not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smell in a quote | present | this place | of men | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of man=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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