The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 85
Instantly poor Mrs. Goldsmith tumbled over; and the stranger, horrified at seeing what he had done, was immediately seized by the goldsmith, who ran out screaming:
Who acts: poor Mrs. Goldsmith, stranger, goldsmith · What happens: tumble over, horrify, see, do, seize, run out · To what, where: stranger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Mrs. Goldsmith, stranger, goldsmith), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 tumbled | advmod |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Goldsmith | amod |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Goldsmith | compound |
| 4 | Goldsmith | Goldsmith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tumbled | nsubj |
| 5 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 tumbled | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 horrified | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 horrified | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stranger | det |
| 10 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horrified | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 horrified | punct |
| 12 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tumbled | conj |
| 13 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | mark |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 horrified | advcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 done | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 seeing | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seized | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seized | aux:pass |
| 21 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 22 seized | advmod |
| 22 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tumbled | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 goldsmith | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goldsmith | det |
| 25 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seized | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ran | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 ran | nsubj |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 goldsmith | acl:relcl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 ran | compound:prt |
| 30 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 ran | advcl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 tumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tumble over | past | poor Mrs. Goldsmith | instantly, over property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | horrify | participle · passive | the stranger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | stranger | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | seize | past · passive | the goldsmith | immediately property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | run out | past | the goldsmith | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | scream speech: express | gerund | the goldsmith not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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