The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 184

They were all very anxious to know what had happened, but he rushed off and locked himself into a room, where he ramped and raved until he was tired.

Who acts: governors, king · What happens: be, know, happen, rush off, lock, ramp · To what, where: king, room · 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 (governors, king), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 anxious	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 anxious	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 anxious	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 anxious	advmod
5	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 anxious	csubj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	aux
10	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 know	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 rushed	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rushed	nsubj
14	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 anxious	parataxis
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 rushed	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 locked	cc
17	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rushed	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 locked	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 room	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 room	det
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 locked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ramped	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 ramped	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ramped	nsubj
25	ramped	ramp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 room	acl:relcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 raved	cc
27	raved	rave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ramped	conj
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 tired	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tired	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tired	cop
31	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 raved	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	governors = governor			all, anxious property	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rush off	past	king				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lock	past	king not said here	king	a room		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	ramp	past	king				tree rules
7	rave speech: other	past	king not said here				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	king			tired property	tree rules

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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