The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 105
All at once they began to hurry; the last cart was loaded, and they whipped up their horses, so as to be the first to arrive home.
Who acts: All, others · What happens: begin, hurry, load, whip up, be, arrive · To what, where: last cart, horses
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, others), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 began | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hurry | mark |
| 7 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 loaded | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cart | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cart | amod |
| 11 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loaded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 loaded | aux:pass |
| 13 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 began | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whipped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 whipped | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 whipped | nsubj |
| 17 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 loaded | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 whipped | compound:prt |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horses | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 whipped | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 first | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 first | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 first | mark |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 first | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 first | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 first | det |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 began | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 arrive | mark |
| 29 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 first | acl |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 arrive | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | All | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hurry | to-infinitive | All not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | load | past · passive | the last cart | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | whip up | past | others = other | others's horses | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent horse=Material | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | first property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | arrive | to-infinitive | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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