Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 132

Then came a terrible noise, for all the nine hundred and ninety-nine Queens ran out of the Palace shrieking and shouting and calling for their babies.

Who acts: terrible noise, nine Queens, Palace shrieking · What happens: come, run, shout, call · To what, where: Palace shrieking · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible noise, nine Queens, Palace shrieking), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 noise	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noise	amod
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hundred	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 hundred	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 hundred	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	compound
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ninety	cc
13	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	conj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 ninety	punct
15	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 Queens	nummod
16	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ran	nsubj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	22 shrieking	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 shrieking	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shrieking	det
21	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 shrieking	compound
22	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ran	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shouting	cc
24	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 shrieking	acl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 calling	cc
26	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 shouting	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 babies	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 babies	nmod:poss
29	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 calling	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a terrible noise		then	for all nine hundred	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	nine Queens	the Palace shrieking			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shrieking=Trajectory
3	shout speech: express	gerund	the Palace shrieking not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call	gerund	the Palace shrieking not said here			for trees's babies	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for baby=Recipient

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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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