The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 8

He asked what was the matter, and when he heard all that had happened, he rushed off as fast as he could to pursue Sigurd.

Who acts: father, that · What happens: ask, hear, happen, rush off, pursue · To what, where: Sigurd · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, that), 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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 asked	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 happened	det:predet
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 happened	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happened	aux
15	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 heard	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rushed	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rushed	nsubj
18	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 rushed	compound:prt
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 fast	advmod
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 rushed	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 could	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 could	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fast	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pursue	mark
26	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 could	xcomp
27	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 pursue	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	father			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	hear	past	father			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	past · perfect	that			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rush off	past	father		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pursue	to-infinitive	father not said here	Sigurd		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=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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