The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 43

He arrived thus at the capital, and threaded his way straight up the High Street, still running and singing ‘Quack, quack, quack, when shall I get my money back?’ to the great astonishment of the good folks, till he came to the King’s palace.

Who acts: Drakestail, I · What happens: arrive, thread, run, sing, get back, come · To what, where: capital, way, Quack, money, palace, good folks

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	2 arrived	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 capital	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 threaded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threaded	cc
9	threaded	thread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threaded	obj
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 Street	advmod
13	up	up	ADP	_	16 Street	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Street	det
15	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Street	amod
16	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 threaded	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 running	punct
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 running	advmod
19	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 arrived	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 singing	cc
21	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 running	conj
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Quack	punct
23	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 singing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 quack	punct
25	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Quack	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 quack	punct
27	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Quack	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 get	advmod
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 get	nsubj
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 arrived	conj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 money	nmod:poss
34	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
35	back	back	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 astonishment	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 astonishment	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 astonishment	amod
41	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 folks	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 folks	det
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 folks	amod
45	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 astonishment	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 came	punct
47	till	till	SCONJ	_	49 came	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 came	nsubj
49	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	conj
50	to	to	ADP	_	54 palace	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 King	det
52	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 palace	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 King	case
54	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 came	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Drakestail		the capital		thus property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	thread	past	Drakestail not said here	Drakestail's way			up the High Street	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	run	gerund	Drakestail not said here			still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	gerund	Drakestail not said here	Quack and quack and quack				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quack=Theme
5	get back	shall	I	my money			to the great astonishment of the good folks	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
6	come	past	Drakestail		the King's palace			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
7	astonish			the good folks				nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: of=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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