The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 22

Quicker than lightning they sprang to their feet, and rushed madly away, all except Elsa, who had strayed farther than the rest, and had found a bed of the finest strawberries right under the trees.

Who acts: Quicker lightning, Elsa · What happens: spring, rush, stray, find · To what, where: feet, all, bed, trees

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quicker lightning, Elsa), 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	Quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 lightning	amod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Quicker	fixed
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprang	nsubj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sprang	nsubj
5	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 feet	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sprang	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rushed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rushed	cc
11	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sprang	conj
12	madly	madly	ADV	_	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 rushed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 all	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 rushed	obl
16	except	except	ADP	_	17 Elsa	case
17	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rushed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 strayed	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 strayed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 strayed	aux
21	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 Elsa	acl:relcl
22	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 strayed	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 rest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rest	det
25	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 farther	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 found	cc
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 found	aux
29	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sprang	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bed	det
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 strawberries	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 strawberries	det
34	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 strawberries	amod
35	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bed	nmod
36	right	right	ADV	_	39 trees	advmod
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 trees	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 trees	det
39	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 found	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past	Quicker lightning		children's feet		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination
2	rush	past	Quicker lightning not said here	all		except Elsa; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stray	past · perfect	Elsa			far property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past · perfect	Quicker lightning not said here	a bed of the finest strawberries	the trees		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Topic

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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