The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 165
They ran at such a pace to the door of the ruined castle that the owl could scarcely keep up with them.
Who acts: storks, owl · What happens: run, ruin, keep up
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, owl), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pace | case |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 pace | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pace | det |
| 6 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 12 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 castle | amod |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owl | det |
| 16 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 18 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 19 keep | advmod |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 keep | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | storks = stork | at such pace; to the door of the ruined castle result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 2 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | keep up | could | the owl | with storks = stork; scarcely property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
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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