The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 90

Without saying a word she ran to the door, but it was covered with a thick spider’s web, and when she broke it she found another, and another, and another.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: say, run, cover, break, find · To what, where: word, another · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 saying	mark
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ran	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 covered	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 covered	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 covered	aux:pass
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ran	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	20 web	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 spider	det
17	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spider	amod
18	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 web	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 spider	case
20	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 broke	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 broke	nsubj
25	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 broke	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 found	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 another	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 another	cc
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 found	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 another	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 another	cc
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 another	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Princess not said here	a word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	run	past	Princess		to the door result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result
3	cover	past · passive		word	with a thick spider's web	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with web=Theme
4	break	past	Princess	word		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
5	find	past	Princess	another	another obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic

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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