The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 47
When Dullhead heard this he marched before the Princess with his goose and its appendages, and as soon as she saw these seven people continually running after each other she burst out laughing, and could not stop herself.
Who acts: Dullhead, seven · What happens: hear, march, see, run, burst out, laugh · To what, where: this, seven people, seven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, seven), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marched | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 marched | nsubj |
| 6 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marched | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 goose | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 goose | nmod:poss |
| 12 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Princess | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appendages | cc |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 appendages | nmod:poss |
| 15 | appendages | appendage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 goose | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 saw | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 saw | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marched | conj |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 people | det |
| 24 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 people | nummod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 27 running | advmod |
| 27 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 saw | ccomp |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 each | case |
| 29 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 27 running | obl |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 each | fixed |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 burst | nsubj |
| 32 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 running | acl:relcl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 burst | compound:prt |
| 34 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 burst | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stop | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stop | cc |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 stop | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 stop | advmod |
| 39 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 marched | conj |
| 40 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 stop | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Dullhead | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | march | past | Dullhead | before the Princess with Dullhead's goose and laugh's appendages | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before princess=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | past | seven | this seven people | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | run | gerund | after each | continually property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burst out | past | seven | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | laugh | gerund | seven not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not stop | could | Dullhead not said here | seven | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality herself=Eventuality |
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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