The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 15
Just as the king was about to reason with her, the door was thrown violently open, and Prince Omar rushed in, followed by his keepers, whom he had managed to get away from.
Who acts: king, Omar · What happens: be, throw, rush in, follow, manage, get away · To what, where: door, keepers
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Omar), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 about | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 about | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 reason | case |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 about | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reason | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrown | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thrown | aux:pass |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 about | conj |
| 16 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 17 open | advmod |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thrown | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rushed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rushed | cc |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Omar | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rushed | nsubj |
| 22 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 rushed | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 followed | punct |
| 25 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 rushed | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 keepers | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 keepers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 followed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 managed | punct |
| 30 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 managed | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 managed | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 managed | aux |
| 33 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 keepers | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 get | mark |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 managed | xcomp |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 get | advmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 get | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | to reason with face; about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | the door | open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush in | past | Omar Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | participle | Omar Prince not said here | by king's keepers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by keeper=Location | ||||
| 5 | manage | past · perfect | king | king's keepers | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get away | to-infinitive | king not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «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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