The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 107

At the sound of his voice they gave a cry and ran towards him, and poured out questions as to what had happened, and why he looked like that.

Who acts: shoulders, king · What happens: give, run, pour out, happen, look · To what, where: cry, sound, questions

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoulders, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sound	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 voice	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 voice	nmod:poss
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cry	det
10	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 poured	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 poured	cc
17	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gave	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 poured	compound:prt
19	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 poured	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 happened	mark
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 as	fixed
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 happened	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 happened	aux
24	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 poured	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 looked	cc
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 looked	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 looked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	shoulders = shoulder	a cry	the sound of king's voice		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cry=Theme at sound=Asset
2	run	past	shoulders = shoulder not said here			towards king	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
3	pour out	participle		questions			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient
4	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	past	king			like that	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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