The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 256
As soon as they came in Rosette ran to embrace her brothers, while the traitors threw themselves down before her and begged for mercy.
Who acts: Messengers, Rosette, traitors · What happens: come, run, embrace, throw down, beg · To what, where: brothers, Messengers
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 (Messengers, Rosette, traitors), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 ran | mark |
| 7 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 embrace | mark |
| 10 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ran | xcomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 embrace | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 threw | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 traitors | det |
| 16 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 threw | nsubj |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 threw | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 threw | compound:prt |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threw | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 begged | cc |
| 23 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 threw | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 mercy | case |
| 25 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Messengers = messenger | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Rosette | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | embrace | to-infinitive | Rosette not said here | Rosette's brothers | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | throw down | past | the traitors | Messengers = messenger | before Rosette | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme before she=Destination | |||
| 5 | beg speech: request | past | the traitors not said here | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic |
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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