The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 37

But the squirrel ran up a tree like lightning, and the marten remembering, just in time, that he was the next in size, slipped quick as thought into a hole in the rocks.

Who acts: squirrel, marten · What happens: run up, remember, be, slip, think · To what, where: tree, size, hole

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squirrel, marten), 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	_	4 ran	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 squirrel	det
3	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 lightning	case
9	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remembering	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 remembering	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marten	det
13	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remembering	nsubj
14	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ran	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 time	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 time	case
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remembering	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 next	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 next	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 next	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 next	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 next	det
24	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 remembering	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 size	case
26	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 next	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 slipped	punct
28	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
29	quick	quick	ADV	_	31 thought	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 thought	advmod
31	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 slipped	xcomp
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 hole	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hole	det
34	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thought	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 rocks	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rocks	det
37	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hole	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	past	the squirrel	a tree			like lightning	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory
2	remember	gerund	the marten			time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	marten		size		next property	tree rules
4	slip	past	the squirrel not said here					tree rules
5	think speech: other	participle	the squirrel not said here		a hole in the rocks		quick property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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