The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 107
They kept running about all night, and trembled all the while, without knowing which way they went.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: keep, run, tremble, know, go · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 running | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trembled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trembled | cc |
| 9 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 while | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trembled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knowing | punct |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 knowing | mark |
| 15 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 trembled | advcl |
| 16 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knowing | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | brothers = brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tremble | past | brothers = brother not said here | while | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | which way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | past | brothers = brother | which way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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