More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 124

"Now's our time," said Jan, and he pushed the door off the branches, and it fell right in the very middle of the table, and frightened the robbers so that they all ran away.

Who acts: Jan, gentleman, bag, door · What happens: be, say, push, fall, frighten, run away · To what, where: time, door, branches, middle, robbers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jan, gentleman, bag, door), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 time	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 time	nmod:poss
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pushed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pushed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pushed	nsubj
13	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pushed	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	18 branches	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 branches	det
18	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pushed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
23	right	right	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 middle	advmod
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 table	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 table	det
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 middle	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 frightened	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 frightened	cc
33	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 robbers	det
35	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 frightened	obj
36	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 ran	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 so	fixed
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 ran	nsubj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 they	det
40	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 frightened	advcl
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 ran	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		our time		now		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Jan					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	push	past	gentleman	the door	the branches			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent door=Theme off branch=Trajectory
4	fall	past	bag		the middle of the table		right property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
5	frighten	past		the robbers				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus robber=Experiencer
6	run away	past	door				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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