The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 97
Then the creeping multitude around the witch hastened to roll themselves in the water, and stood up, human beings again.
What happens: creep, hasten, roll, stand up · To what, where: creeping multitude, signs, water, human beings
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 8 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 multitude | det |
| 3 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 multitude | amod |
| 4 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 witch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 multitude | nmod |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 roll | mark |
| 10 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hastened | xcomp |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 roll | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roll | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hastened | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 stood | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beings | punct |
| 20 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beings | amod |
| 21 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stood | obl |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hasten | participle · passive | the creeping multitude around the witch | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | roll | to-infinitive | signs = sign | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stand up | past | human beings | again | vn assuming_position-50 «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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