The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 32
They cried out in horror at the sight, and, rushing out of the hut, declared they would never see her any more.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: cry out, rush out, declare, not see · To what, where: horror, hut, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 cried | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 horror | case |
| 5 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rushing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rushing | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rushing | punct |
| 12 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cried | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 hut | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hut | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hut | det |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rushing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 declared | punct |
| 18 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | conj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 see | advmod |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 declared | ccomp |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 see | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | brothers = brother | horror | at the sight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horror=Location | |||
| 2 | rush out | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | brothers = brother not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not see | would | brothers = brother | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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