The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 98
The procession was marching on quite smoothly, when a man, armed with a dagger, rushed out of an alley straight towards the king.
Who acts: procession · What happens: march on, rush out · To what, where: man, alley
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 (procession), 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 | 2 procession | det |
| 2 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marching | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marching | aux |
| 4 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 marching | compound:prt |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 smoothly | advmod |
| 7 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 4 marching | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 man | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marching | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 armed | punct |
| 13 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 dagger | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dagger | det |
| 16 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 armed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rushed | punct |
| 18 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 marching | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 alley | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 alley | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 alley | det |
| 22 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushed | obl |
| 23 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 26 king | advmod |
| 24 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march on | past · progressive | the procession | a man | smoothly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rush out | participle | the procession not said here | a alley | towards the king | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent alley=Theme towards king=Trajectory |
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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