The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 50
When they heard that Peppina was her sister, they all ran to meet her.
Who acts: mother, Peppina · What happens: hear, be, run, meet · To what, where: sister, Peppina · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Peppina), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sister | mark |
| 5 | Peppina | Peppina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sister | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sister | cop |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 they | det |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ran | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | mother | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Peppina | Peppina's sister | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | past | mother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | mother not said here | Peppina | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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