The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 91

Then the lid sprang up to the right, and the princess came out, straight over him, and rushed round the church, howling and shrieking ‘Sentry, where are you?

Who acts: lid, princess, you · What happens: spring up, come out, rush, howl, shriek, be · To what, where: church, Sentry

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lid, princess, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sprang	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lid	det
3	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	nsubj
4	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sprang	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 right	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 right	det
8	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 him	punct
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 him	advmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rushed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rushed	cc
21	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sprang	parataxis
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 church	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 church	det
24	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rushed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 howling	punct
26	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 rushed	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shrieking	cc
28	shrieking	shriek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 howling	conj
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 Sentry	punct
30	Sentry	Sentry	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 shrieking	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 where	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 Sentry	nmod
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 where	cop
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 where	nsubj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	the lid			then	to the right	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	past	the princess				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	rush	participle			the church			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round church=Trajectory
4	howl	gerund						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shriek	gerund		Sentry				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sentry=Theme
6	is	present	you				where property	tree rules

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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