The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 96
At that instant her frightened ladies came running down the stairs, crying:
Who acts: instant frightened ladies · What happens: come, run down, cry · To what, where: stairs
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instant frightened ladies), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 instant | nsubj |
| 3 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ladies | amod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 5 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ladies | amod |
| 6 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 stairs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stairs | det |
| 11 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 running | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 running | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hand's instant frightened ladies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run down | gerund | hand's instant frightened ladies not said here | the stairs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | hand's instant frightened ladies 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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