The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 63
While all this was happening, Prince Ratibor was hurrying away with his prize to a place of safety.
Who acts: this, Ratibor · What happens: happen, hurry away · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Ratibor), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 happening | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 happening | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 happening | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happening | aux |
| 5 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hurrying | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happening | punct |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ratibor | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Ratibor | Ratibor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hurrying | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurrying | aux |
| 10 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 hurrying | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 prize | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prize | nmod:poss |
| 14 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurrying | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurrying | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 safety | case |
| 19 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · progressive | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurry away | past · progressive | Ratibor Prince | a place of safety | with Ratibor's prize; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |
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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