The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 218
When he heard her cry out so piteously he was very sorry for her, and ran back into his house to fetch a long boat-hook.
Who acts: dog, hand · What happens: hear, cry out, be, run back, fetch · To what, where: hand, house, long boat hook
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, hand), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ran | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cry | compound:prt |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 sorry | advmod |
| 8 | piteously | piteously | ADV | _ | 12 sorry | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sorry | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sorry | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 sorry | advmod |
| 12 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cry | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sorry | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 ran | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fetch | mark |
| 23 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ran | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hook | det |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hook | amod |
| 26 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hook | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 boat | punct |
| 28 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fetch | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | dog | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | infinitive | hand not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | dog | for hand; piteously, sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run back | past | into dog's house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | |||||
| 5 | fetch | to-infinitive | a long boat hook | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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