The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 83

They rushed at it so that all its boughs creaked; if it had not been fastened by the gold star at the top to the ceiling, it would have been overthrown.

Who acts: children, boughs, gold star · What happens: rush, creak, not fasten, overthrow · To what, where: permission, top

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, boughs, gold star), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rushed	nsubj
2	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rushed	obl
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 creaked	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 creaked	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 boughs	det:predet
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boughs	nmod:poss
9	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 creaked	nsubj
10	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rushed	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 fastened	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 fastened	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fastened	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fastened	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 fastened	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 fastened	aux:pass
17	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rushed	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 star	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 star	det
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 star	compound
21	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fastened	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 top	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 top	det
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fastened	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 ceiling	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ceiling	det
27	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 top	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 overthrown	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 overthrown	nsubj:pass
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 overthrown	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 overthrown	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 overthrown	aux:pass
33	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 fastened	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rush	past	children = child		permission	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at it=Trajectory
2	creak	past	permission's boughs			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not fasten a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	the gold star	permission	the top to the ceiling	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	overthrow	would · perfect · passive		permission		tree rules

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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