The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 125
The messenger awoke with such a start, and when he saw that the hour had almost run out he snatched up the answer and rushed back with such speed that the clock had not yet struck when he entered the palace.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: awake, see, run out, snatch up, rush back, not strike · To what, where: hour, answer, clock, palace
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 messenger | det |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 start | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 start | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 start | det |
| 7 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 run | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hour | det |
| 15 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 run | aux |
| 17 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 18 run | advmod |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 snatched | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 run | compound:prt |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 snatched | nsubj |
| 21 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 snatched | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 answer | det |
| 24 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 snatched | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rushed | cc |
| 26 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 rushed | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 speed | case |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 speed | amod |
| 30 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rushed | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 struck | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 clock | det |
| 33 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 struck | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 struck | advmod |
| 36 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 37 struck | advmod |
| 37 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 speed | acl:relcl |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 entered | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 entered | nsubj |
| 40 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 struck | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 palace | det |
| 42 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 entered | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the messenger | with such start | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | see | past | messenger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | run out | past · perfect · passive | the hour | almost property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | snatch up | past | messenger | the answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rush back | past | messenger not said here | with such speed | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with speed=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | not strike | past · perfect · passive | the clock | yet | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient that=Result | ||||
| 7 | enter | past | messenger | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination |
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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