The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 84
Suddenly the people in the castle became broad awake, and rushed to the stable.
Who acts: people · What happens: become, rush
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 became | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 became | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 awake | amod |
| 9 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rushed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rushed | cc |
| 12 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 became | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 stable | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stable | det |
| 15 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rushed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the people in the castle | awake, suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rush | participle | the people in the castle not said here | to the stable result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stable=Result |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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