The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 128

At the first streaks of dawn they were both up, and in a very few minutes were running down to the shore.

Who acts: streaks, first streaks · What happens: be, run down · To what, where: dawn

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streaks, first streaks), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 streaks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 streaks	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 streaks	amod
4	streaks	streak	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 streaks	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 up	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 up	cop
9	both	both	ADV	_	10 up	advmod
10	up	up	ADV	_	6 dawn	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 running	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 running	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 minutes	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 minutes	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 few	advmod
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 minutes	amod
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 running	obl:unmarked
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 running	aux
19	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 streaks	acl
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 running	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 shore	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shore	det
23	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 down	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 streaks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	streaks = streak	dawn not said here				both, up property	tree rules
2	run down	past · progressive	the first streaks of dawn not said here				minute	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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