The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 3
When the robbers saw it, they rushed out, exclaiming, ‘Gold! gold!’
Who acts: robbers · What happens: see, rush out, exclaim · To what, where: coach, Gold gold
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 (robbers), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robbers | det |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 rushed | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaiming | punct |
| 11 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rushed | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gold | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gold | punct |
| 14 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gold | compound |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Gold | punct |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaiming | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaiming | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the robbers | coach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rush out | past | robbers = robber | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | robbers = robber not said here | Gold gold | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gold=Topic |
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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