The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 118

The monster rushed into the room, and threw itself panting on the bed, crying: ‘I’ve flown half over the world.

Who acts: monster, I · What happens: rush, throw, pant, cry, fly · To what, where: room, monster, bed, world

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster, I), 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 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushed	nsubj
3	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threw	cc
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	conj
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 threw	obj
11	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 threw	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bed	det
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 panting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crying	punct
16	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 panting	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 flown	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 flown	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 flown	nsubj
20	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 flown	aux
21	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 rushed	conj
22	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 flown	advmod
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flown	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	the monster			into the room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
2	throw	past	the monster not said here	monster			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
3	pant	gerund	the monster not said here		the bed		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the monster not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fly	present · perfect	I		the world	half property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over world=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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