The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 97

They—ran about in—in all directions, and I—I—ran after them and nearly died of fatigue.

Who acts: sheep, I · What happens: run about, run, die · To what, where: directions

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 (sheep, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 directions	case
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 directions	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 directions	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 directions	det
9	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ran	nsubj
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 I	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ran	nsubj
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 I	punct
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ran	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 died	cc
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	21 died	advmod
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ran	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 fatigue	case
23	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	run about	past	sheep	all directions		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory
2	run	past	I		after sheep		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	I not said here			of fatigue; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fatigue=Causer

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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