The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 45

This the young man did, but as soon as they reached the outskirts of the mountain they grew quite wild, and would have run away altogether, had they not luckily gone towards a narrow ravine, from which the youth easily drove them home to his father’s cottage.

Who acts: This, man · What happens: do, reach, grow, run away, have, not go · To what, where: outskirts, mountain, narrow ravine, youth, cottage

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, man), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 did	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reached	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 reached	cc
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 reached	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 reached	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reached	nsubj
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 outskirts	det
14	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reached	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mountain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 outskirts	nmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mountain	acl:relcl
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 wild	advmod
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grew	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 run	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 run	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 run	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 run	aux
26	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 did	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 run	advmod
28	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	26 run	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gone	nsubj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 gone	advmod
33	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	34 gone	advmod
34	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 had	ccomp
35	towards	towards	ADP	_	38 ravine	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 ravine	det
37	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ravine	amod
38	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gone	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 drove	punct
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 drove	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 youth	det
43	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 drove	obl:unmarked
44	easily	easily	ADV	_	45 drove	advmod
45	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gone	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 drove	obj
47	home	home	ADV	_	45 drove	advmod
48	to	to	ADP	_	52 cottage	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 father	nmod:poss
50	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 cottage	nmod:poss
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 father	case
52	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 drove	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	This				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	man	the outskirts of the mountain		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent outskirt=Theme
3	grow	past	man	the mountain not said here		wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme
4	run away	would · perfect	This not said here			altogether, away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	This not said here				tree rules
6	not go	participle	man		a narrow ravine	luckily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards ravine=Initial_Location
7	drive	past	man not said here	the youth	youth's father's cottage	easily, home property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from which=Destination to cottage=Initial_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: «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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