The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 31
But a few minutes later she made a sudden dash for one of the doors, opened it and darted out, followed by her husband.
Who acts: wife · What happens: make, open, dart out, follow · To what, where: sudden dash, dash
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 later | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 made | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dash | det |
| 9 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dash | amod |
| 10 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 made | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 doors | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 doors | det |
| 15 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 opened | punct |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 opened | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 darted | cc |
| 20 | darted | dart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 opened | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 darted | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 followed | punct |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 darted | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 husband | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 husband | nmod:poss |
| 26 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | wife | a sudden dash | for one of the doors; late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent dash=Product for one=Asset | |||
| 2 | open | past | dash | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dart out | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | follow | participle | by wife's husband | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by husband=Location |
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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