The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 54
By-and-by a trumpet sounded, and she hurried home, only to appear again in a few moments walking by the side of her father down to the river.
Who acts: trumpet, princess, few moments · What happens: sound, hurry, appear, walk
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trumpet, princess, few moments), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounded | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sounded | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 sounded | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trumpet | det |
| 7 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounded | nsubj |
| 8 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hurried | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hurried | nsubj |
| 12 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sounded | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 hurried | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appear | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 appear | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 appear | mark |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hurried | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 appear | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moments | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moments | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 moments | amod |
| 22 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appear | obl |
| 23 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 moments | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 side | det |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walking | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 father | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 side | nmod |
| 30 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 walking | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 river | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 river | det |
| 33 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 down | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | a trumpet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hurry | past | princess | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | to-infinitive | princess not said here | again; moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk | gerund | a few moments not said here | by the side of princess's father; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
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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