The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 40
The servant was filled with fear at her words, and hastened and told the smith, who ran as fast as he could to seek for Ian.
Who acts: smith · What happens: fill, hasten, tell, run, seek, word · To what, where: servant, smith · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fear | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hastened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hastened | cc |
| 12 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 filled | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 smith | det |
| 16 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 smith | acl:relcl |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 fast | advmod |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 ran | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 could | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 could | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fast | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 seek | mark |
| 26 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 could | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Ian | case |
| 28 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 seek | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the servant | with fear at smith's words | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fear=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the smith | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent smith=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | run | past | the smith | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | the smith not said here | for Ian | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for ian=Theme | ||||
| 6 | word | smith | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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