The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 86
My friend River hastens out, and errouf! throws herself into the furnace, which she floods, with all the people who had lighted it; after which she flowed growling into the hall of the palace to the height of more than four feet.
Who acts: friend, errouf, furnace, people · What happens: hasten out, throw, flood, light, flow, growl · To what, where: errouf, furnace, hall
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 (friend, errouf, furnace, people), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastens | nsubj |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 friend | appos |
| 4 | hastens | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 hastens | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throws | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 throws | cc |
| 8 | errouf | errouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throws | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 errouf | punct |
| 10 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastens | parataxis |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 throws | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 furnace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 furnace | det |
| 14 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throws | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 floods | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 floods | nsubj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 floods | nsubj |
| 18 | floods | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 furnace | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 people | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 people | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 floods | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lighted | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lighted | aux |
| 26 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 people | acl:relcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lighted | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 flowed | punct |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 flowed | obl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 flowed | nsubj |
| 32 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 throws | conj |
| 33 | growling | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 flowed | xcomp |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 hall | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hall | det |
| 36 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 growling | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 palace | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hall | nmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 height | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 height | det |
| 42 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 growling | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 feet | case |
| 44 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 46 four | advmod |
| 45 | than | than | ADP | _ | 44 more | fixed |
| 46 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 feet | nummod |
| 47 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 height | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten out | present | My friend | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | throw | present | errouf | errouf | into the furnace result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into furnace=Result | |||
| 3 | flood | present | the furnace | with all people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | light | past · perfect | all people | furnace | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 5 | flow | past | errouf | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | growl | gerund | errouf not said here | the hall of the palace | to the height of four feet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into hall=Recipient |
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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