More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 92

I, hearing the dog howl, jumped over the wall; and turned it as neatly inside out as possible, when it ran away as if it had not an hour to live.

Who acts: I, wall · What happens: hear, jump, turn, run away, live · To what, where: dog howl, wall, howl

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wall), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hearing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hearing	punct
3	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 howl	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 howl	compound
6	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hearing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 jumped	punct
8	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hearing	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 wall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumped	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hearing	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turned	obj
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 neatly	advmod
17	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	14 turned	advmod
18	inside	inside	ADV	_	19 out	advmod
19	out	out	ADV	_	14 turned	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 possible	mark
21	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 out	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ran	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 ran	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ran	nsubj
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 turned	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 ran	advmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	33 hour	case
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 hour	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hour	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hour	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 hour	advmod
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hour	det
33	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ran	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 live	mark
35	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hour	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hearing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	I	the dog howl				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer howl=Stimulus
2	jump	past	I not said here		the wall			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory
3	turn	past		howl			neatly, out property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	run away	past	wall			hour	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	to-infinitive	wall not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «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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