The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 80

But as soon as she entered the room she saw a terrible army of rats, who were guarding the straw bed; and when she attempted to approach it they sprang at her, biting and scratching furiously.

Who acts: Felicia, rats · What happens: enter, see, guard, attempt, approach, spring · To what, where: room, terrible army, straw bed

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, rats), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 entered	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 entered	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 entered	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 entered	nsubj
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 room	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 army	det
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 army	amod
13	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 rats	case
15	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 army	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 guarding	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 guarding	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 guarding	aux
19	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 rats	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bed	det
21	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bed	compound
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guarding	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 sprang	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sprang	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 attempted	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 attempted	nsubj
27	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sprang	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 approach	mark
29	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 attempted	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 approach	obj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sprang	nsubj
32	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 entered	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sprang	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 biting	punct
36	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 sprang	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 scratching	cc
38	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 biting	conj
39	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	38 scratching	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Felicia	the room	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	see	past	Felicia	a terrible army of rats		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus
3	guard	past · progressive	rats	the straw bed		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Beneficiary
4	attempt	past	Felicia			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	approach not said to happen	to-infinitive	Felicia not said here	room		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	spring	past	rats = rat		at Felicia	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory
7	bite	gerund	rats = rat not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	scratch	gerund	rats = rat not said here		furiously property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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