The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 29

Now when the King’s daughter saw her father returning in the distance she was so delighted that she ran to meet him and threw herself into his arms.

Who acts: daughter, father · What happens: see, return, be, run, meet, throw · To what, where: father, distance, King, daughter, arms

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, father), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 saw	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 King	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 father	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 distance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 distance	det
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returning	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 delighted	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 delighted	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 delighted	advmod
17	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 distance	acl:relcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 ran	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ran	nsubj
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 delighted	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 meet	mark
22	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ran	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 meet	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 threw	cc
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 threw	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 arms	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arms	nmod:poss
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 threw	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King's daughter	daughter's father	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
2	return	gerund	daughter's father not said here			in the distance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	daughter	the distance not said here		delighted property	tree rules
4	run	past	daughter				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	meet	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	King			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	throw	past	the King's daughter not said here	daughter		into King's arms result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into arm=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 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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