The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 116

Then, behold! she ran into her son’s very arms, but he had only time to kiss her and step in front of her, when the King struck at him with his sword.

Who acts: mother, king · What happens: run, have, kiss, strike · To what, where: arms, 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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ran	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	behold	behold	INTJ	_	6 ran	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 behold	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	12 arms	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arms	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 son	case
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 arms	advmod
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ran	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 time	advmod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 kiss	mark
20	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 time	acl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kiss	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 step	cc
23	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 time	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 step	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 front	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 struck	punct
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 struck	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 struck	nsubj
32	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 struck	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 sword	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sword	nmod:poss
37	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 struck	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	mother		then	into mother's son's arms result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into arm=Result
2	have	past	king		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	kiss	to-infinitive	king not said here	mother			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
4	strike	past	the King			at son; with king's sword	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient with sword=Instrument

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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