The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 19
In the meantime the Prince and the black girl had again assumed their natural forms, and were hurrying on as fast as they could to reach the river.
Who acts: fugitives · What happens: assume, hurry on, reach, form · To what, where: natural forms, meantime, river
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fugitives), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assumed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 meantime | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 girl | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meantime | conj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 assumed | aux |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 assumed | advmod |
| 12 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 forms | nmod:poss |
| 14 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forms | amod |
| 15 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 assumed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurrying | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hurrying | cc |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurrying | aux |
| 19 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 assumed | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 hurrying | compound:prt |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 hurrying | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 reach | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reach | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 reach | aux |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 reach | mark |
| 27 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hurrying | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reach | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | past · perfect | fugitives's natural forms | the meantime and the black girl | again | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 2 | hurry on | past · progressive | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | could | fugitives = fugitive | the river | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | fugitives = fugitive | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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