The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 46

But instead of coming she called to the robber, who rushed into the room brandishing a knife, with which he prepared to attack the prince.

Who acts: sister, robber, back · What happens: come, call, rush, brandish, prepare, attack · To what, where: robber, room, knife, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, robber, back), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 called	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 coming	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 called	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 robber	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 robber	det
9	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rushed	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 rushed	nsubj
12	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 robber	acl:relcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rushed	obl
16	brandishing	brandish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rushed	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 knife	det
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brandishing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 prepared	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 prepared	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 prepared	nsubj
23	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brandishing	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 attack	mark
25	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 prepared	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 prince	det
27	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 attack	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	sister not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	participle	sister		the robber		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to robber=Recipient
3	rush	past	the robber			into the room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
4	brandish	gerund	the robber not said here	a knife			tree rules
5	prepare	past	back				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
6	attack not said to happen	to-infinitive	back not said here	the prince			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient

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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