The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 109

The girl thanked him for his counsel, and set out for the mountain; and scarcely had she gone a few steps upwards when cries and screams broke forth around her, and she felt as if each stone she trod on was a living thing.

Who acts: girl, cries · What happens: thank, set out, go, break, feel, tread · To what, where: place, few steps, stone, living thing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, cries), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 counsel	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 counsel	nmod:poss
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 set	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 mountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountain	det
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gone	cc
17	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	20 gone	advmod
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	aux
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gone	nsubj
20	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thanked	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 steps	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 steps	amod
23	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gone	obj
24	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	20 gone	advmod
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 broke	mark
26	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 broke	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 screams	cc
28	screams	scream	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cries	conj
29	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	advcl
30	forth	forth	ADV	_	29 broke	advmod
31	around	around	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 broke	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 felt	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 felt	cc
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 felt	nsubj
36	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	parataxis
37	as	as	ADP	_	40 stone	case
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 stone	mark
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 stone	det
40	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 felt	obl
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 trod	nsubj
42	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 stone	acl:relcl
43	on	on	ADP	_	47 thing	case
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 thing	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 thing	det
46	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 thing	amod
47	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 felt	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the girl		place		for place's counsel	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for counsel=Attribute
2	set out	past	the girl not said here				for the mountain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past · perfect	girl	a few steps			scarcely, upwards property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
4	break	past	cries and screams				around girl; forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location
5	feel	past	girl				as each stone	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as stone=Theme
6	tread	past	girl	each stone not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stone=Theme
7	is	past				a living thing		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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