The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 40

‘Tsing pe!’ said the First Lord; and he ran up and down stairs, through the halls and corridors, and half the Court ran with him, for they did not want to be trampled under foot.

Who acts: First Lord, Lord, Court, corridors · What happens: ts, say, run up, run, not want, trample · To what, where: pe, halls, foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (First Lord, Lord, Court, corridors), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tsing	punct
2	Tsing	ts	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 said	ccomp
3	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tsing	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Tsing	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tsing	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Lord	det
8	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 Lord	amod
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 down	cc
16	down	down	ADP	_	17 stairs	case
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ran	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 halls	punct
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 halls	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 halls	det
21	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ran	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 corridors	cc
23	corridors	corridor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 halls	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ran	cc
26	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	28 Court	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Court	det
28	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ran	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 want	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 want	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 want	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 want	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 want	advmod
37	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ran	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	40 trampled	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 trampled	aux:pass
40	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 want	xcomp
41	under	under	ADP	_	42 foot	case
42	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 trampled	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ts	gerund		pe			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the First Lord				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run up	past	Lord		the halls and corridors	down stairs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stair=Trajectory
4	run	past	half Court			with Lord	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material
5	not want	past · do-support	corridors = corridor				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	trample not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	corridors = corridor not said here		foot		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 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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