The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 20

Instead of falling upon Blanchette he came frisking up to her like a good dog.

Who acts: Friend · What happens: fall, come, frisk up · To what, where: Blanchette

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friend), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 falling	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 Blanchette	case
5	Blanchette	Blanchette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 falling	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	frisking	frisk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 came	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 frisking	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 frisking	obl
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 dog	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dog	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dog	amod
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frisking	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	Friend not said here		Blanchette		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon blanchette=Location
2	come	past	Friend				tree rules
3	frisk up	gerund	Friend not said here	Blanchette		like a good dog	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent

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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