The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 126

They rushed clattering into the hut, exclaiming, ‘We smell human flesh!

Who acts: skins, We · What happens: rush, clatter, exclaim, smell · To what, where: hut, human flesh

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skins, We), 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 rushed	nsubj
2	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clattering	clatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 rushed	xcomp
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 hut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hut	det
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clattering	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 exclaiming	punct
8	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 clattering	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smell	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 smell	punct
11	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 smell	nsubj
12	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 exclaiming	conj
13	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flesh	amod
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smell	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rush	past	skins = skin			tree rules
2	clatter	gerund	skins = skin not said here		the hut	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Location
3	exclaim speech: express	gerund	skins = skin not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	smell	present	We	human flesh		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flesh=Stimulus

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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