The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 118

She caught sight of Kay; she recognised him, and ran and put her arms round his neck, crying, ‘Kay! dear little Kay!

Who acts: biting · What happens: catch, recognise, run, put, cry, sight · To what, where: sight, Kay, arms

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (biting), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Kay	case
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sight	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 recognised	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 recognised	nsubj
8	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 recognised	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ran	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 neck	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neck	nmod:poss
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crying	punct
21	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ran	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Kay	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Kay	punct
24	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 crying	obj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Kay	punct
26	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Kay	amod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Kay	amod
28	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 crying	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	biting	sight of Kay		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	recognise	past	biting	Kay		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	run	past	biting not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put	past	biting not said here	biting's arms	round Kay's neck	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
5	cry speech: express	gerund	biting not said here	Kay		tree rules
6	sight			Kay		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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