The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 115
So now she was running for her very life, and the wicked King was following her with a sword in his hand.
Who acts: mother, wicked King · What happens: run, follow · To what, where: mother
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, wicked 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 running | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 running | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 running | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 running | aux |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 life | advmod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 running | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 following | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 following | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 King | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 following | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 following | aux |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 running | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 following | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sword | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sword | det |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 following | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sword | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | mother | now | for mother's life | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | follow | past · progressive | the wicked King | mother | with a sword in king's hand | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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