The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 39

Out of the pieces there sprang a wild boar and galloped away, but the prince called his hounds to give chase, and they caught the boar and tore it to bits.

Who acts: prince, pieces · What happens: spring, gallop away, call, give, catch, tore · To what, where: wild boar, pieces, hounds, chase, boar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, pieces), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pieces	det
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sprang	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sprang	advmod
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boar	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boar	amod
9	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 galloped	cc
11	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 galloped	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hounds	nmod:poss
19	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 called	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 give	mark
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 called	xcomp
22	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 caught	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 caught	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 caught	nsubj
26	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boar	det
28	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 caught	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tore	cc
30	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 caught	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tore	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 bits	case
33	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tore	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past		a wild boar	the pieces; there		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location boar=Theme
2	gallop away	past				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past	the prince	prince's hounds			tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	chase			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme
5	catch	past	pieces = piece	the boar			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme
6	tore	past	pieces = piece not said here	boar		to bits	tree rules

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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