The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 59

When she went clattering up the stairs again, out came the Prince and took the comb and flung it at her, and ordered her to be off as fast as she could.

Who acts: Kari, Prince · What happens: go, clatter up, come, take, fling, order off · To what, where: stairs, comb, Kari

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (Kari, Prince), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	advcl
4	clattering	clatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 went	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 clattering	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clattering	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 clattering	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
10	out	out	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 comb	det
17	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flung	cc
19	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flung	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flung	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ordered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ordered	cc
25	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ordered	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 off	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 off	cop
29	off	off	ADP	_	25 ordered	compound:prt
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 fast	advmod
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 ordered	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 could	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 could	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fast	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Kari					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	clatter up	gerund	Kari not said here	the stairs		again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme
3	come	past	the Prince				out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	the Prince not said here	the comb				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme
5	fling	past	the Prince not said here	comb			at Kari	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at she=Destination
6	order off	past			Kari		fast property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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