The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 2
Swearing loudly, he opened the door of the third stall quickly, and cried to his goblin servants to go and chase the fugitives.
Who acts: sight, goblin · What happens: swear, open, cry, servant, go, chase · To what, where: door, fugitives
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, goblin), 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 | Swearing | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 opened | advcl |
| 2 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 1 Swearing | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Swearing | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stall | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 stall | amod |
| 11 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 opened | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 16 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 servants | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 goblin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 servants | nsubj |
| 19 | servants | servant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 servants | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 chase | cc |
| 23 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fugitives | det |
| 25 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 chase | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | gerund | sight not said here | loudly property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past | sight | the door of the third stall | quickly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | sight not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | servant | present | sight's goblin | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | sight's goblin not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | chase | infinitive | sight's goblin not said here | the fugitives | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fugitive=Theme |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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