The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 28

‘Quick! quick!’ cried the horse, and the king scrambled hastily through the small window, and leapt into the saddle.

Who acts: king · What happens: cry, scramble, leapt · To what, where: horse, small window, saddle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Quick	punct
2	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 quick	punct
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Quick	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Quick	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Quick	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scrambled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scrambled	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scrambled	nsubj
14	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
15	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	14 scrambled	advmod
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 window	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 window	amod
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scrambled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leapt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leapt	cc
22	leapt	leapt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 saddle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 saddle	det
25	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leapt	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the horse			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	scramble	past	the king		the small window	hastily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory
3	leapt	infinitive			the saddle		tree rules

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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