The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 20

He made all the haste he could, and just as he reached the great gates out came the nurse with the royal baby, who stretched out his arms to his father.

Who acts: Scarcely, great gates, royal baby · What happens: make, reach, come, stretch out · To what, where: haste, arms

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, great gates, royal baby), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 haste	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 haste	det
5	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 could	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 made	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reached	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 reached	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 reached	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reached	nsubj
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gates	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gates	amod
16	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
17	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reached	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nurse	det
20	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 baby	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 baby	det
23	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 baby	amod
24	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nurse	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stretched	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 stretched	nsubj
27	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 baby	acl:relcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 stretched	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 arms	nmod:poss
30	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stretched	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 father	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stretched	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Scarcely	all haste		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
2	reach	past	Scarcely			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the great gates		out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch out	past	the royal baby	Scarcely's arms	to Scarcely's father result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to father=Result

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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