More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 89

But just as he was trying to get through the inn-door which would scarcely keep still long enough for him to find it, up came the landlord and caught him by the sleeve.

Who acts: yi, landlord · What happens: try, get, keep, find, come, catch · To what, where: inn door, door, yi

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yi, landlord), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 trying	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 trying	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 trying	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trying	aux
6	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	xcomp
9	through	through	ADP	_	13 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
11	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 inn	punct
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 keep	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	17 keep	advmod
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 get	xcomp
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keep	xcomp
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 find	mark
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 long	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
27	up	up	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trying	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 landlord	det
30	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 caught	cc
32	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 caught	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 sleeve	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sleeve	det
36	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 caught	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	yi				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	yi not said here		the inn door		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	keep	would				long, scarcely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	find	to-infinitive	yi	door			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	come	past	the landlord				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	catch	past	the landlord not said here	yi		by the sleeve	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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