The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 3

Then they set forth, but the news of their coming ran swifter still, and Rhiannon and Kieva, wife of Pryderi, made haste to prepare a feast for them.

Who acts: lands, news, Rhiannon, haste · What happens: set, come, run, make, prepare · To what, where: news, swifter, haste, feast

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lands, news, Rhiannon, haste), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 set	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 news	det
8	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	nsubj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 coming	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 coming	nsubj
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 news	acl
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
13	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obj
14	still	still	ADV	_	12 ran	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
17	Rhiannon	Rhiannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 made	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Kieva	cc
19	Kieva	Kieva	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Rhiannon	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wife	punct
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Rhiannon	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Pryderi	case
23	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 wife	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Rhiannon	punct
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
26	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 prepare	mark
28	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 made	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 feast	det
30	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 prepare	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 prepare	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	lands = land		then	forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	come	gerund	lands = land	the news not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme
3	run	past	the news	swifter	still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swifter=Trajectory
4	make	past	Rhiannon and Kieva	haste			tree rules
5	prepare	to-infinitive	haste not said here	a feast		for lands = land	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent feast=Product for they=Beneficiary

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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