The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 58

The horrified princess fled to the door to escape from the sight of this mournful company, and called loudly for the gnome, who appeared at once, humbly anxious to do her bidding.

Who acts: horrified princess, gnome, princess · What happens: flee, escape, call, appear, do, sight · To what, where: door, sight, bidding, mournful company · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrified princess, gnome, princess), 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	3 princess	det
2	horrified	horrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 princess	amod
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fled	nsubj
4	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fled	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 escape	mark
9	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fled	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 sight	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sight	det
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 company	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 company	det
15	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 company	amod
16	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sight	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 called	cc
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fled	parataxis
20	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	19 called	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 gnome	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gnome	det
23	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 appeared	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 appeared	nsubj
26	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gnome	acl:relcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 appeared	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 anxious	punct
30	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	31 anxious	advmod
31	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 called	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 anxious	xcomp
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bidding	nmod:poss
35	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	the horrified princess		the door		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	escape	to-infinitive	the horrified princess not said here		the sight of this mournful company		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location
3	call	participle				for the gnome; loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for gnome=Recipient
4	appear	past	the gnome				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5	do	to-infinitive		princess's bidding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
6	sight			this mournful company			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	bid		princess				nom bidding «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 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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