Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 32

The major-general sprung up in the air; and cried out to the old Chinaman, "They are running away! they are running away!"

Who acts: stags · What happens: spring up, cry out, run away · To what, where: air, old Chinaman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stags), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sprung	det
2	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 general	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 major	punct
4	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sprung	amod
5	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 sprung	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprung	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sprung	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 cried	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 Chinaman	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Chinaman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Chinaman	amod
17	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 running	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 running	punct
20	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 running	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 running	aux
22	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 running	advcl
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 running	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 running	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 running	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 running	aux
27	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cried	advcl
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 running	advmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 sprung	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sprung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring up	participle			the air		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
2	cry out speech: express	past		the old Chinaman			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to chinaman=Recipient
3	run away in a quote	present · progressive	stags = stag			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run away in a quote	present · progressive	stags = stag			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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