The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 177
All night long she ran from one to the other, until at last, driven quite frantic by terror and want of sleep, the King rushed out of the palace crying:
Who acts: matter, King, palace · What happens: run, drive, want, rush out, cry · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, King, palace), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 night | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ran | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 other | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 last | punct |
| 12 | until | until | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ran | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 driven | punct |
| 16 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 last | conj |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 frantic | advmod |
| 18 | frantic | frantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 driven | xcomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 terror | case |
| 20 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frantic | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 want | cc |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 16 driven | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sleep | case |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 want | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rushed | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 rushed | nsubj |
| 28 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 palace | det |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rushed | obl |
| 33 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 palace | acl |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | matter | night | from one to the other | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | drive | participle | matter not said here | frantic property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want | present | matter not said here | of sleep | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | rush out | past | the King | the palace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | the palace not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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