The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 193
Suddenly, when they had almost reached the top, a slave who was on in front cried:
Who acts: footprints · What happens: reach, cry · To what, where: top, front
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footprints), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 reached | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | aux |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 reached | advmod |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cried | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slave | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 slave | det |
| 12 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 on | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 on | cop |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 top | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 front | case |
| 17 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | footprints = footprint | the top and a slave | almost, suddenly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | front | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
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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