The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 4

The second man, hearing the signal, leapt the ditch in confidence, and was met by the same fate, and in a few minutes eleven of the robbers lay dead, and there remained only the captain.

Who acts: second man, same fate, few minutes · What happens: hear, leapt, meet, lay, remain · To what, where: signal, ditch, confidence, captain

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second man, same fate, few minutes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leapt	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hearing	punct
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 man	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 signal	det
7	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hearing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leapt	punct
9	leapt	leapt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ditch	det
11	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leapt	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 confidence	case
13	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leapt	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 met	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 met	aux:pass
17	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 leapt	advcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 fate	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fate	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fate	amod
21	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lay	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 minutes	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 minutes	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 minutes	amod
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lay	nsubj
28	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 minutes	flat
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 robbers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 robbers	det
31	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eleven	nmod
32	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 leapt	parataxis
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lay	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 remained	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 remained	cc
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 remained	advmod
37	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 lay	conj
38	only	only	ADV	_	40 captain	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 captain	det
40	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 remained	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the second man not said here	the signal			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer signal=Stimulus
2	leapt	infinitive	the second man	the ditch	confidence		tree rules
3	meet	past · passive	the same fate				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	present	a few minutes			dead property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	remain	participle	a few minutes not said here	the captain	there		vn exist-47.1 «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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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