The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 100

The squirrels and guinea pigs ran whimpering after him, as though they would like to go too, and he begged them to come when he reached the door, but they all turned and ran quickly back into the house again.

Who acts: squirrels, house · What happens: run, whimper, like, go, beg, come · To what, where: squirrels, door, house

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squirrels, house), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squirrels	det
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ran	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pigs	cc
4	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigs	compound
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 squirrels	conj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	whimpering	whimper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ran	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 whimpering	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 like	mark
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 like	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ran	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 like	xcomp
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begged	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begged	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begged	nsubj
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begged	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	xcomp
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 reached	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reached	nsubj
28	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reached	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turned	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 turned	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turned	nsubj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 turned	advmod
35	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ran	cc
37	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 turned	conj
38	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	37 ran	advmod
39	back	back	ADV	_	37 ran	advmod
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 house	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 house	det
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ran	obl
43	again	again	ADV	_	37 ran	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the squirrels and guinea pigs					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whimper	gerund	the squirrels and guinea pigs not said here			after house		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	would	squirrels = squirrel					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	squirrels = squirrel not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	beg speech: request	past	house		squirrels = squirrel			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	house not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	reach	past	house	the door				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme
8	turn	past	squirrels = squirrel					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	run back	past	squirrels = squirrel not said here			again	into the house result; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result

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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