The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 41
He shrieked for help to his wife, who came running; and luckily brought her rope with her.
Who acts: prince, wife · What happens: shriek, come, run, bring · To what, where: wife, rope
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shrieked | nsubj |
| 2 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 help | case |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shrieked | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shrieked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wife | acl:relcl |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 came | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 14 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 15 brought | advmod |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shrieked | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 rope | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | prince | prince's wife | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | past | prince's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | prince's wife not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | past | prince not said here | wife's rope | with wife; luckily property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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