Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 14
The king was so excited at the tale, that he snatched away the key and running as fast as he could to the eighth treasure vault, turned the key in the lock and flung open the door.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, snatch away, run, turn, fling, open · To what, where: tale, key, door
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 excited | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 excited | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 excited | advmod |
| 5 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 tale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tale | det |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 excited | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 snatched | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 snatched | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 snatched | nsubj |
| 12 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 turned | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 snatched | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 key | det |
| 15 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snatched | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 running | cc |
| 17 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 key | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 running | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 could | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 could | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fast | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 vault | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 vault | det |
| 25 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 vault | amod |
| 26 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vault | compound |
| 27 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 could | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 turned | punct |
| 29 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 excited | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 key | det |
| 31 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turned | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 lock | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lock | det |
| 34 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turned | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 flung | cc |
| 36 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 turned | conj |
| 37 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 flung | xcomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 door | det |
| 39 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 open | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | the tale | excited property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | snatch away | past | king | the key | away property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | king not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | the key | in the lock | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent key=Patient in lock=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fling | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | open | infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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