The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 141

He ran forward to begin, but the young girl to whom he had given his bread gave a cry of terror and took him up in her arms, saying:

Who acts: prince, young girl, terror · What happens: run, begin, give, take up, say, cry · To what, where: prince, cry, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince, young girl, terror), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 begin	mark
5	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	nsubj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 whom	case
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 given	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 girl	acl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bread	nmod:poss
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 given	obj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cry	det
20	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 terror	case
22	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cry	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 took	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 arms	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arms	nmod:poss
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	parataxis
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	prince			forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	to-infinitive	prince not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	give	past · perfect · passive		prince		to the young girl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient bread=Theme
4	give	past	the young girl	a cry of terror			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
5	take up	past	the young girl not said here	prince	girl's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location
6	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	cry		terror				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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