The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 45

The news was told at once to Iliane, who ran down directly and called them to her one by one, each mare by its name.

Who acts: news · What happens: tell, run down, call, name · To what, where: news, Iliane, palace, mare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (news), 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 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 told	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Iliane	case
8	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	directly	directly	ADV	_	11 ran	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 called	cc
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	24 mare	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mare	nmod:poss
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 mare	nsubj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mare	punct
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 mare	det
24	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	obl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 name	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 name	nmod:poss
27	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mare	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the news	Iliane		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to iliane=Recipient
2	run down	past				directly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past		palace	princess's mare by news's name		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to mare=Recipient
4	name		news				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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