The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 180
The Prince when he heard this got up also, and ran after the King, and they had not gone far when they both fell into the river and were never heard of again.
Who acts: Prince, this, King · What happens: hear, get up, run, not go, fall, not hear · To what, where: river · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince, this, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 got | compound:prt |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gone | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 gone | advmod |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | conj |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 gone | advmod |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 fell | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | advcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 river | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 heard | cc |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 heard | aux:pass |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 heard | advmod |
| 33 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 fell | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 again | case |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 heard | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get up | past | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | run | past | the Prince not said here | after the King | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not go | past · perfect | King | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | King | into the river result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result | ||||
| 6 | not hear | past · passive | King not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of again=Stimulus |
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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