The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 90

This time the Knight of the Fish did not stop to hear more, but ran off as fast as he could, and found the princess bathed in tears, and trembling from head to foot.

Who acts: Knight · What happens: not stop, hear, run off, find, bath, tremble · To what, where: time, more, princess, tears

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Knight	det
4	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stop	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Fish	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fish	det
7	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Knight	nmod
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stop	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stop	advmod
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 time	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stop	xcomp
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 hear	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 ran	compound:prt
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 ran	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 could	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fast	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ran	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 princess	det
27	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obj
28	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 princess	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 tears	case
30	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bathed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 trembling	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 trembling	cc
33	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 found	advcl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 head	case
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trembling	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 foot	case
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trembling	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past · do-support	the Knight of the Fish	this time not said here				tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	the Knight of the Fish not said here	more				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
3	run off	past				time	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past		the princess				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
5	bath	participle		the princess not said here	tears			tree rules
6	tremble	gerund					to foot; from head	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from head=Stimulus

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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