The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 96
She went straight to the King’s kitchen, where the white-aproned cooks were running about in great confusion.
Who acts: passer, aproned cooks · What happens: go, apron, run about · To what, where: kitchen, great confusion
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (passer, aproned cooks), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 kitchen | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 running | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 running | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cooks | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 aproned | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 white | punct |
| 14 | aproned | apron | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cooks | amod |
| 15 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 running | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 running | aux |
| 17 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kitchen | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 running | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 confusion | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 confusion | amod |
| 21 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 running | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | passer | the King's kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | apron | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | run about | past · progressive | the aproned cooks | great confusion | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in confusion=Trajectory |
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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