The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 68
While he was thus waiting there ran up to him a youth, scarcely able to speak so swiftly had he sped; and he cried aloud:
Who acts: heart · What happens: wait, run up, speak, speed, cry · To what, where: youth, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 waiting | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waiting | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 waiting | advmod |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 waiting | advmod |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 ran | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 14 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 15 able | advmod |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ran | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 speak | mark |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 sped | advmod |
| 19 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sped | aux |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sped | nsubj |
| 22 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 speak | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 cried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cried | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cried | nsubj |
| 26 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | parataxis |
| 27 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 26 cried | advmod |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | heart | there | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | run up | past | a youth | heart | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | speed | past · perfect | heart | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | heart | aloud property | 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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