The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 179

Everybody ran everywhere, and tried to do everything at once; and, in the middle of it all, the old governor went about with his hair standing on end, muttering something about “obeying orders.”

Who acts: Everybody, middle · What happens: run, try, do, go about, stand, mutter · To what, where: everything, end, something, orders · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Everybody, middle), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 ran	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tried	cc
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 do	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 do	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 middle	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 middle	nmod
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 it	det
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 governor	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 governor	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 governor	amod
24	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 middle	conj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 hair	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hair	nmod:poss
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
30	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 went	advcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 end	case
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 standing	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 muttering	punct
34	muttering	mutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 standing	conj
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 muttering	obj
36	about	about	SCONJ	_	38 obeying	mark
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 obeying	punct
38	obeying	obey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 muttering	advcl
39	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 obeying	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Everybody			everywhere property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	Everybody not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Everybody not said here	everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
4	go about	past	the middle of news and the old governor			with town's hair; about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hair=Instrument
5	stand	gerund	the middle of news and the old governor not said here		on end		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location
6	mutter speech: assert	gerund	the middle of news and the old governor not said here	something			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
7	obey in a quote	gerund	the middle of news and the old governor not said here	orders			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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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