The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 30

But all of a sudden, just as the Prince began chasing it for the fourth time, the beast fled to a great white stone, tilted it up, and escaped into the other world, crying out to the Prince: ‘Then only will you overcome me, when you enter here.’

Who acts: Prince, beast, you · What happens: begin, chase, flee, tilt up, escape, cry out · To what, where: beast, great white stone, other world, Prince, me

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, beast, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 sudden	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sudden	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 a	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 all	nmod
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 began	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 began	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sudden	parataxis
12	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 began	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chasing	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chasing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fled	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beast	det
20	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fled	nsubj
21	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 stone	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stone	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stone	amod
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stone	amod
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tilted	punct
28	tilted	tilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fled	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tilted	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 tilted	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 escaped	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 escaped	cc
33	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fled	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	37 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 world	amod
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 escaped	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 crying	punct
39	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 escaped	advcl
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 crying	compound:prt
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 Prince	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Prince	det
43	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 crying	obl
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 overcome	punct
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	50 overcome	punct
46	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 overcome	advmod
47	only	only	ADV	_	50 overcome	advmod
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 overcome	aux
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 overcome	nsubj
50	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fled	conj
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 overcome	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 enter	punct
53	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 enter	advmod
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 enter	nsubj
55	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 overcome	conj
56	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 enter	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sudden	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sudden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the Prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	chase	gerund	the Prince not said here	beast			time	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	flee	past	the beast			a great white stone		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stone=Initial_Location
4	tilt up	past	the beast not said here	beast				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	escape	past	the beast not said here			the other world		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
6	cry out speech: express	gerund	the beast not said here		the Prince			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient
7	overcome	future	you	me			then	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
8	enter	present	you			here		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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