The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 57
She shrieked with pain and rage, and ran screaming back to the palace, where her father was waiting to hear if she had succeeded.
Who acts: nose, father · What happens: shriek, run, scream back, wait, hear, succeed · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nose, father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shrieked | nsubj |
| 2 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 pain | case |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shrieked | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rage | cc |
| 6 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pain | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shrieked | conj |
| 10 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 ran | xcomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 screaming | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 screaming | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 waiting | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 waiting | advmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waiting | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 waiting | aux |
| 20 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 screaming | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hear | mark |
| 22 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 waiting | advcl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 succeeded | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 succeeded | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 succeeded | aux |
| 26 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 hear | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | nose | with pain and rage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | nose not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scream back speech: express | gerund | nose not said here | the palace | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to palace=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | wait | past · progressive | nose's father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | nose's father not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | nose | vn succeed-74-1 «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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