The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 64

At this moment their conversation was interrupted by two mice, who, breathless from running, flung themselves headlong through the hole into the tree, nearly crushing the Grasshopper and the Cricket, though they got out of the way as fast as they could and stood up in a dark corner.

Who acts: two mice, trees · What happens: interrupt, run, fling, crush, get out, stand up · To what, where: conversation, trees, hole, Grasshopper, dark corner

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 mice, trees), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interrupted	obl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 conversation	nmod:poss
5	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interrupted	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 interrupted	aux:pass
7	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 mice	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 mice	nummod
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 interrupted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 breathless	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 breathless	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 breathless	punct
14	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mice	acl:relcl
15	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 running	mark
16	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 breathless	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flung	punct
18	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 interrupted	conj
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 flung	obj
20	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flung	xcomp
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 hole	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hole	det
23	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flung	obl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flung	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crushing	punct
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	29 crushing	advmod
29	crushing	crush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 flung	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Grasshopper	det
31	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 crushing	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Cricket	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Cricket	det
34	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Grasshopper	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
36	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 got	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	nsubj
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 interrupted	parataxis
39	out	out	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 way	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 way	det
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 got	obl
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 fast	advmod
44	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 got	advmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 could	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 could	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 fast	advcl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 stood	cc
49	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 got	conj
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 stood	compound:prt
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 corner	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 corner	det
53	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 corner	amod
54	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 stood	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interrupt	past · passive	two mice	trees's conversation		moment		tree rules
2	run	gerund	two mice not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fling	past	two mice not said here	trees = tree	the hole		into the tree; headlong property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme through hole=Destination
4	crush	gerund	two mice not said here	the Grasshopper and the Cricket			nearly property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Patient
5	get out	past	trees = tree				of the way; fast, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of way=Source
6	stand up	past	trees = tree not said here		a dark corner			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
7	converse		trees = tree					nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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