The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 121
He gave a shriek of dismay, and sprang up in search of the wanderers.
Who acts: prince · What happens: give, spring up, shriek, search · To what, where: shriek, search, dismay, wanderers
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shriek | det |
| 4 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dismay | case |
| 6 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shriek | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprang | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sprang | cc |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 sprang | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 search | case |
| 12 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprang | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wanderers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wanderers | det |
| 15 | wanderers | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 search | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | prince | a shriek of dismay | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring up | past | prince not said here | search of the wanderers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 3 | shriek | dismay | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | search | the wanderers | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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