The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 18
The tailor, with new-born courage, sprang up, threw on his clothes with all speed and hurried out.
Who acts: new born courage, tailor · What happens: bear, sprang up, throw, hurry out · To what, where: clothes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new born courage, tailor), 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 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 courage | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 courage | case |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 courage | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 new | punct |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 courage | amod |
| 8 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tailor | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sprang | punct |
| 10 | sprang | sprang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 courage | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 sprang | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tailor | punct |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 clothes | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 threw | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 speed | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 speed | det |
| 19 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hurried | cc |
| 21 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 threw | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 hurried | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | sprang up | infinitive | new born courage not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | throw | past | the tailor | tailor's clothes | with all speed | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | |||
| 4 | hurry out | participle | the tailor not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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