The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 141
In her hurry she had almost tripped over him.
Who acts: princess · What happens: trip, hurry · To what, where: hurry
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hurry | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hurry | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tripped | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tripped | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tripped | aux |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 tripped | advmod |
| 7 | tripped | trip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tripped | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | past · perfect | princess | princess's hurry | over vain; almost property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hurry | princess | nom hurry «state 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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