The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 19

The Princess stood quite still at first from sheer bewilderment, but when the last sound of the retreating carriages died away in the distance she began to run aimlessly hither and thither, sometimes knocking herself against a tree, sometimes tripping over a stone, fearing every minute that she would be eaten up by the lions.

Who acts: Princess, last sound, lions · What happens: stand, retreat, die away, begin, run, knock · To what, where: sheer bewilderment, distance, Princess, tree, stone

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, last sound, lions), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 still	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 stood	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 bewilderment	case
9	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bewilderment	amod
10	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 died	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 died	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 died	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sound	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sound	amod
16	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 carriages	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 carriages	det
19	retreating	retreat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 carriages	amod
20	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sound	nmod
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 died	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 distance	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 distance	det
25	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 distance	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 run	mark
29	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	aimlessly	aimlessly	ADV	_	29 run	advmod
31	hither	hither	ADV	_	29 run	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thither	cc
33	thither	thither	ADV	_	31 hither	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 knocking	punct
35	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 knocking	advmod
36	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 run	advcl
37	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 knocking	obj
38	against	against	ADP	_	40 tree	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 tree	det
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 knocking	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tripping	punct
42	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 tripping	advmod
43	tripping	trip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 knocking	conj
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 stone	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 stone	det
46	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tripping	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fearing	punct
48	fearing	fear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 knocking	conj
49	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	50 minute	det
50	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fearing	obj
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 eaten	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 eaten	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 eaten	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 eaten	aux:pass
55	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 fearing	advcl
56	up	up	ADP	_	55 eaten	compound:prt
57	by	by	ADP	_	59 lions	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 lions	det
59	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 eaten	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the Princess		sheer bewilderment	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at first=Location
2	retreat	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	die away	past	the last sound of the retreating carriages				in the distance; away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in distance=Attribute
4	begin	past	Princess	the distance not said here				tree rules
5	run	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				aimlessly, hither property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	knock	gerund	Princess not said here	Princess	a tree		sometimes property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme against tree=Destination
7	trip	gerund	Princess not said here		a stone		sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=Trajectory
8	fear	gerund	Princess not said here			minute		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	eat up	would · passive	the lions	Princess				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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