The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 6
By this time the whole court were running over the plain, some on foot and some on horseback, all hurrying to the help of their princess, who really was in some danger, for the wind was rising to the force of a gale.
Who acts: whole court, all, princess, wind · What happens: run, hurry, be, rise, help · To what, where: plain, help, danger, force, princess
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 (whole court, all, princess, wind), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 running | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 court | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 court | amod |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 running | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 running | aux |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 plain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plain | det |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 running | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 foot | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 foot | det |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plain | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 horseback | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 horseback | det |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 horseback | case |
| 19 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plain | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hurrying | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 hurrying | nsubj |
| 22 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 running | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 help | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 help | det |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurrying | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 princess | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 princess | nmod:poss |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 help | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 danger | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 danger | nsubj |
| 31 | really | really | ADV | _ | 35 danger | advmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 danger | cop |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 danger | case |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 danger | det |
| 35 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 princess | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rising | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 rising | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wind | det |
| 39 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rising | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 rising | aux |
| 41 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 running | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 force | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 force | det |
| 44 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rising | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 gale | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 gale | det |
| 47 | gale | gale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 force | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | the whole court | the plain and some foot and some horseback | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over plain=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hurry | gerund | all | the help of right's princess | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to help=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | right's princess | some danger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rise | past · progressive | the wind | the force of a gale | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to force=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | help | right's princess | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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