The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 156
Oh, my gold and my silver and my best clothes!’ shrieked the Priest, and, wild with rage, he ran home so fast that the goose-girl thought he had suddenly gone mad.
Who acts: gold, Priest, girl thought · What happens: shriek, run, go · To what, where: Priest
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, Priest, girl thought), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 gold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gold | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shrieked | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 silver | cc |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 silver | nmod:poss |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clothes | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 gold | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 clothes | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 clothes | punct |
| 14 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Priest | det |
| 16 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 shrieked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wild | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wild | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wild | punct |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shrieked | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 rage | case |
| 22 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wild | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shrieked | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 ran | advmod |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 fast | advmod |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 ran | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 gone | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 thought | det |
| 31 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 girl | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 goose | punct |
| 33 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thought | compound |
| 34 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gone | nsubj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gone | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 gone | aux |
| 37 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 38 gone | advmod |
| 38 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 ran | advcl |
| 39 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gone | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | my gold and my silver and my best clothes | the Priest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location priest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Priest | fast, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | the girl thought | mad, suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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