The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 2
With a tremendous roar he sprang from his seat, and in two strides had reached the door.
Who acts: Giant · What happens: spring, reach · To what, where: seat, two strides
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 roar | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 roar | det |
| 3 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 roar | amod |
| 4 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 seat | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 seat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 strides | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 strides | nummod |
| 14 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reached | aux |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sprang | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | Giant | Giant's seat | with a tremendous roar | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect · passive | two strides | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary door=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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