The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 4

The king ran as fast as he could, but the wind ran faster still, and in a moment the princess was whirled to the bottom of the garden, which was bounded by a ditch.

Who acts: king, wind, ditch · What happens: run, whirl, bound · To what, where: princess, bottom

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wind, ditch), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ran	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fast	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
14	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 still	advmod
15	still	still	ADV	_	13 ran	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 whirled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 whirled	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whirled	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whirled	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 whirled	aux:pass
24	whirled	whirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 bottom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whirled	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 garden	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 garden	det
30	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bottom	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bounded	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 bounded	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 bounded	aux:pass
34	bounded	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bottom	acl
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 ditch	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 ditch	det
37	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bounded	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the king				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	the wind			still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	whirl	past · passive		the princess	the bottom of the garden	moment		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to bottom=Destination
4	bound	past · passive	a ditch	the bottom of the garden				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=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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