The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 45
The King, fearing something had happened to his dear huntsman, ran up to help, and began drawing off his gloves.
Who acts: King, something · What happens: fear, happen, run up, help, begin, draw off · To what, where: gloves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, something), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fearing | punct |
| 4 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 King | acl |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 fearing | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 huntsman | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 huntsman | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 huntsman | amod |
| 11 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 ran | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ran | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 20 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 drawing | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 23 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drawing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | the King not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | something | to King's dear huntsman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run up | past | the King | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | the King not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | draw off | gerund | the King not said here | King's gloves | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme |
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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