More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 76
So off he went; spent and gasping, and stumbling and sobbing with joy, flying for his life out of the terrible bogs.
Who acts: thing · What happens: go, spend, gasp, stumble, sob, fly · To what, where: terrible bogs
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 spent | punct |
| 6 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gasping | cc |
| 8 | gasping | gasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spent | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stumbling | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stumbling | cc |
| 11 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sobbing | cc |
| 13 | sobbing | sob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stumbling | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 joy | case |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sobbing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flying | punct |
| 17 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stumbling | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flying | obl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 bogs | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bogs | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bogs | det |
| 24 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bogs | amod |
| 25 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flying | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | thing | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spend | participle | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | gasp | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | stumble | gerund | thing not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sob | gerund | thing not said here | with joy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fly | gerund | thing not said here | the terrible bogs | for thing's life | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bog=Location |
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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