The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 71
Finally they rushed at him all together, to overwhelm him with pecks.
Who acts: turkeys · What happens: rush, overwhelm · To what, where: Drakestail
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 (turkeys), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | obl |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 together | advmod |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 overwhelm | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 overwhelm | mark |
| 10 | overwhelm | overwhelm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rushed | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 overwhelm | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 pecks | case |
| 13 | pecks | peck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 overwhelm | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | turkeys = turkey | at Drakestail; finally, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | overwhelm | to-infinitive | turkeys = turkey not said here | Drakestail | with pecks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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