The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 101

First they went over the bridge, and then past the trunk of the birch tree, and then past the old hag who sat in the cleft of the rock spinning, and they went by so fast that Cinderlad could not hear what the old hag screeched after him, but just heard enough to understand that she was terribly enraged.

Who acts: foals, old hag, rock, Cinderlad · What happens: go, sit, spin, not hear, screech, hear · To what, where: bridge, cleft, old hag, hag

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foals, old hag, rock, Cinderlad), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 bridge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trunk	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 trunk	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 trunk	advmod
10	past	past	ADP	_	12 trunk	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trunk	det
12	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
15	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trunk	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hag	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hag	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 hag	advmod
20	past	past	ADP	_	23 hag	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hag	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hag	amod
23	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hag	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 cleft	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cleft	det
28	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 rock	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rock	det
31	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cleft	nmod
32	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 rock	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 went	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 went	nsubj
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 fast	case
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 fast	advmod
39	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 went	obl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 hear	mark
41	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 hear	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 hear	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 hear	advmod
44	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 went	advcl
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 hear	obj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 hag	det
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 hag	amod
48	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 what	nsubj
49	screeched	screech	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 hag	acl
50	after	after	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 screeched	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 heard	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 heard	cc
54	just	just	ADV	_	55 heard	advmod
55	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
56	enough	enough	ADV	_	55 heard	advmod
57	to	to	PART	_	58 understand	mark
58	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 heard	advcl
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 enraged	mark
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 enraged	nsubj:pass
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 enraged	aux:pass
62	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	63 enraged	advmod
63	enraged	enrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 understand	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	foals = foal		the bridge		past the trunk of the birch tree; past the old hag; first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over bridge=Initial_Location past trunk=Destination
2	sit	past	the old hag		the cleft of the rock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cleft=Location
3	spin	gerund	the rock not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	foals = foal					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by fast=Location
5	not hear	could	Cinderlad					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	screech	participle		the old hag not said here		after Cinderlad		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hear	participle					enough property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
8	understand	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	enrage	past · passive		hag			terribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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