The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 131

Some fell down dead as they came out before they had time to get away; others crawled farther with great difficulty; while others again lay on the ground, fainting with hunger, and begged a morsel of bread from those who were going into the house, but they would not so much as look at the poor creatures.

Who acts: Some, people, others · What happens: fall down, come out, have, get away, crawl, lie · To what, where: ground, morsel, those, house

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, people, others), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	advcl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	advcl
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	advcl
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 crawled	punct
17	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crawled	nsubj
18	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
19	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 crawled	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 difficulty	case
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 difficulty	amod
22	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 farther	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 lay	mark
25	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	nsubj
26	again	again	ADV	_	27 lay	advmod
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 crawled	parataxis
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fainting	punct
32	fainting	faint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 lay	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 hunger	case
34	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fainting	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 begged	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 begged	cc
37	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 crawled	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 morsel	det
39	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 begged	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 bread	case
41	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 morsel	nmod
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 those	case
43	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 begged	obl
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 going	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 going	aux
46	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 those	acl:relcl
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 house	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 house	det
49	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 going	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 look	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 look	cc
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 look	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 look	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 much	advmod
55	so	so	ADV	_	56 much	advmod
56	much	much	ADV	_	58 look	advmod
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 look	mark
58	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 crawled	conj
59	at	at	ADP	_	62 creatures	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 creatures	det
61	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 creatures	amod
62	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 look	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	Some					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	past	people				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	people			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get away	to-infinitive	people not said here				away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	crawl	past	others				far property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lie	past	others		the ground	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
7	faint	gerund	others not said here				with hunger	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	beg speech: request	past	others not said here	a morsel of bread	those			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent morsel=Recipient
9	go	past · progressive			the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
10	look	would	people				at the poor creatures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at creature=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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