The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 19

Rose-red screamed aloud and sprang back in terror, the lamb began to bleat, the dove flapped its wings, and Snow-white ran and hid behind her mother’s bed.

Who acts: lamb, dove, white · What happens: scream, spring back, begin, bleat, flap, run · To what, where: terror, wings, bed

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamb, dove, white), 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	Rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 red	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rose	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 red	acl
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	4 screamed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sprang	cc
7	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 red	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 sprang	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 terror	case
10	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprang	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lamb	det
13	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 red	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bleat	mark
16	bleat	bleat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flapped	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dove	det
19	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flapped	nsubj
20	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wings	nmod:poss
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flapped	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ran	cc
25	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 white	obl
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Snow	punct
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flapped	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hid	cc
30	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ran	conj
31	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 bed	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bed	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 mother	case
35	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hid	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	participle				aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring back	past			terror		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Trajectory
3	begin	past	the lamb				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	bleat	to-infinitive	the lamb not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	flap	past	the dove	dove's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
6	run	past	white				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hide	past	white not said here		mother's mother's bed		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind bed=Location

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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