The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 16
Many an anxious minute his brothers and sisters had looking for him, while his mother ran to and fro cackling in fear and dismay.
Who acts: Many minute brothers, mother · What happens: have, look, run, cackle
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many minute brothers, mother), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brothers | amod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 3 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minute | amod |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brothers | compound |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 minute | acl:relcl |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sisters | cc |
| 8 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brothers | conj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 had | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 ran | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ran | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cackling | cc |
| 20 | fro | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 cackling | mark |
| 21 | cackling | cackle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 ran | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fear | case |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cackling | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dismay | cc |
| 25 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fear | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Many minute brothers and sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Many minute brothers and sisters not said here | for Medio | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Medio's mother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cackle | gerund | Medio's mother not said here | in fear and dismay | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fear=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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