The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 102

At that same moment Halvor entered, and the girls were so astonished that they left their kirtles lying in the chimney corner, and ran away in nothing but their petticoats.

Who acts: Halvor, girls, kirtles · What happens: enter, be, leave, lie, run away · To what, where: kirtles, chimney corner, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, girls, kirtles), 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	_	4 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obl
5	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 entered	nsubj
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 astonished	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 astonished	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girls	det
10	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 astonished	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 astonished	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 astonished	advmod
13	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 entered	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 left	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 left	nsubj
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 astonished	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 kirtles	nmod:poss
18	kirtles	kirtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 left	obj
19	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 kirtles	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 corner	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 corner	det
22	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 corner	compound
23	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 entered	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 nothing	case
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 ran	obl
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 petticoats	cc
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 petticoats	nmod:poss
32	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 nothing	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Halvor			moment		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the girls				astonished property	tree rules
3	leave	past	girls = girl	girls's kirtles				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kirtle=Theme
4	lie	gerund	girls's kirtles not said here		the chimney corner			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
5	run away	past	Halvor not said here		nothing		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nothing=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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