The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 110

It darted towards a hole, but before it could reach it Simon sprang upon it more swiftly than any cat, and then the little mouse turned once more into the beautiful Princess Helena.

Who acts: swan, Simon, little mouse · What happens: dart, reach, spring, turn · To what, where: hole, swan, beautiful Princess Helena

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swan, Simon, little mouse), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 darted	nsubj
2	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 hole	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 darted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sprang	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 sprang	cc
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 reach	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reach	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 reach	aux
11	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sprang	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reach	obj
13	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sprang	nsubj
14	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 darted	conj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sprang	obl
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 swiftly	advmod
18	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	14 sprang	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 cat	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swiftly	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turned	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 turned	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mouse	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mouse	amod
27	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	nsubj
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 darted	conj
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 turned	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	35 Helena	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Helena	det
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Helena	amod
34	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Helena	compound
35	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 darted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dart	past	swan		a hole			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hole=Destination
2	reach	could	swan	hole				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	spring	past	Simon		swan		swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
4	turn	past	the little mouse			then	into the beautiful Princess Helena result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into helena=Result

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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