The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 96

He took her gently in his arms, but she did not seem at all frightened, and only jumped and crowed with delight; and the old man wrapped his cloak round her, and set off for home as fast as his legs would carry him.

Who acts: hermit, girl, old man, legs · What happens: take, not seem, frighten, jump, crow, wrap · To what, where: girl, arms, all, cloak, hermit

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 (hermit, girl, old man, legs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seem	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 seem	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seem	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seem	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seem	advmod
13	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 seem	obj
16	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 all	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jumped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 jumped	cc
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 jumped	advmod
20	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seem	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crowed	cc
22	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 jumped	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 delight	case
24	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crowed	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 wrapped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wrapped	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wrapped	nsubj
30	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cloak	nmod:poss
32	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wrapped	obj
33	round	round	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wrapped	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 set	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 set	cc
37	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 set	compound:prt
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 home	case
40	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 set	obl
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 fast	advmod
42	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 set	advmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 carry	mark
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 legs	nmod:poss
45	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 carry	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 carry	aux
47	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 fast	advcl
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 carry	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	hermit	girl	hermit's arms	gently property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location
2	not seem	past · do-support	girl	all			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Attribute
3	frighten	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	jump	past					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crow	past				with delight	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wrap	past	the old man	hermit's cloak		round girl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme
7	set off	past	hermit not said here			for home; fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	carry	would	hermit's legs	hermit			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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