The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 87
And when he saw how frightened she was, he pulled off another rose, and ran in at his window away from dear little Gerda.
Who acts: frost, girl · What happens: see, frighten, be, pull off, run in · To what, where: rose, window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frost, girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulled | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pulled | nsubj |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 pulled | compound:prt |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 rose | det |
| 14 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 ran | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 window | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 window | nmod:poss |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 ran | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Gerda | case |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Gerda | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Gerda | amod |
| 26 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | frost | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | past | girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pull off | past | frost | another rose | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | run in | past | frost not said here | frost's window | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Trajectory |
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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