The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 275

Then all the cooks and scullions sprang after it, knocking at it with their aprons.

Who acts: cooks · What happens: spring, knock

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cooks), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sprang	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cooks	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cooks	det
4	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sprang	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scullions	cc
6	scullions	scullion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cooks	conj
7	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sprang	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knocking	punct
11	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sprang	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knocking	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 aprons	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 aprons	nmod:poss
16	aprons	apron	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knocking	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	all cooks and scullions				after kitchen; then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	knock	gerund	all cooks and scullions not said here					with scullions's aprons; at kitchen	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient with apron=Instrument

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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