The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 56

They hurried off out into the dark night, the princess leading, because she knew the way, having spied it out while she flew about as a dove.

Who acts: pot, princess · What happens: hurry off, lead, know, have, spy out, fly · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, princess), 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 hurried	nsubj
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 hurried	compound:prt
4	out	out	ADV	_	2 hurried	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 princess	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	conj
12	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 princess	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hurried	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spied	punct
20	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 spied	reparandum
21	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 knew	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spied	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	21 spied	compound:prt
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 flew	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flew	nsubj
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spied	advcl
27	about	about	ADV	_	26 flew	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 dove	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dove	det
30	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hurry off	past	pot		night	out property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lead	gerund	the princess not said here				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	know	past	princess	the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
4	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	spy out	past	princess not said here	way			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	fly	past	princess			as a dove; about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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