The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 67

Oh, such shrieks as the ladies gave! and such running and racing and peeping down as there was! but the clerk soon opened the door of the vault, and up came the two princes, their fine clothes covered an inch thick with cobwebs and mould.

Who acts: such shrieks, clerk, fine clothes · What happens: give, peep down, be, open, come, cover · To what, where: such running, door, two princes, inch

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such shrieks, clerk, fine clothes), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 shrieks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shrieks	amod
4	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	nsubj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 gave	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ladies	det
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 running	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 running	cc
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 running	amod
12	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 racing	cc
14	racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 running	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 peeping	cc
16	peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 running	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 peeping	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 was	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 peeping	advcl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 running	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 opened	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clerk	det
24	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 opened	nsubj
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 opened	advmod
26	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 opened	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 vault	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 vault	det
31	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 came	cc
34	up	up	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 princes	det
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 princes	nummod
38	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 came	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 clothes	punct
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 clothes	nmod:poss
41	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 clothes	amod
42	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	38 princes	appos
43	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 clothes	acl
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 inch	det
45	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 covered	obj
46	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 inch	amod
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 cobwebs	case
48	cobwebs	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 thick	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 mould	cc
50	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cobwebs	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	such shrieks	such running and racing			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent running=Theme
2	peep down	gerund	such shrieks not said here			down property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	such shrieks not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open	past	the clerk	the door of the vault		soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	come	past	such shrieks not said here	the two princes			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme
6	cover	participle	vaults's fine clothes not said here	a inch			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inch=Destination

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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