The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 90
And quickly two footmen ran to fetch Drakestail.
Who acts: two footmen · What happens: run, fetch · 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 (two footmen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 two | advmod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 footmen | nummod |
| 4 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fetch | mark |
| 7 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | xcomp |
| 8 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fetch | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | two footmen | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | two footmen not said here | Drakestail | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drakestail=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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