The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 122
‘I am here!’ shrieked Farmer Weatherbeard, rushing out of doors.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, shriek, rush out · To what, where: Farmer, doors
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 shrieked | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 shrieked | punct |
| 7 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shrieked | obj |
| 9 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Farmer | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushing | punct |
| 11 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 shrieked | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 doors | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 doors | case |
| 14 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rushing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shriek | past | Farmer | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location farmer=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rush out | gerund | doors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory |
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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