The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 84
And the Big Women heard it, and came running back, and took the sword from him, and said:
Who acts: Big Women · What happens: hear, come, run back, take, say · To what, where: shriek, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big Women), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heard | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Women | det |
| 3 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Women | amod |
| 4 | Women | Woman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 running | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sword | det |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Big Women | shriek | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Big Women not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run back | gerund | the Big Women not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the Big Women not said here | the sword | from servant | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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