The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 294

Her women ran at the sound of her screams, and tried to wrench off the horns, but it was of no use, and they only gave her a violent headache.

Who acts: women, sound, horns, woman · What happens: run, try, wrench off, be, give, scream · To what, where: sound, horns, violent headache, woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, sound, horns, woman), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 women	nmod:poss
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sound	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 screams	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 screams	nmod:poss
9	screams	scream	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sound	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tried	cc
12	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wrench	mark
14	wrench	wrench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 wrench	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horns	det
17	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wrench	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 use	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 use	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 use	cop
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 use	case
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 use	det
24	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 gave	advmod
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 headache	det
32	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 headache	amod
33	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	plum's women			the sound of woman's screams		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Trajectory
2	try	past	plum's women not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	wrench off not said to happen	to-infinitive	plum's women not said here	the horns				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horn=Patient
4	is	past	sound				of no use	tree rules
5	give	past	horns = horn	a violent headache	woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient headache=Theme
6	scream		woman					nom scream «communication intransitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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