The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 31
Then he saw that some living creature moved inside and ran along the floor towards him and said something, which made him so frightened that he sprang back from the door and shut it again.
Who acts: Prince, living creature · What happens: see, live, move, run, say, make · To what, where: floor, something, Prince, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, living creature), 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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 moved | mark |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 creature | det |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 creature | amod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | advcl |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 8 moved | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 said | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 something | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 frightened | advmod |
| 25 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 sprang | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sprang | nsubj |
| 28 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 frightened | ccomp |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 sprang | advmod |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sprang | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 shut | cc |
| 34 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sprang | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shut | obj |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 shut | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | move | past | some living creature | inside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Prince not said here | the floor | towards Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along floor=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Prince not said here | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 6 | make | past | Prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||||
| 7 | frighten | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | spring back | past | Prince | the door | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from door=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | shut | past | Prince not said here | door | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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