The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 24

Eisenkopf, however, had seen him go, and followed so closely at his heels that Peter had barely time to clamber up a tall tree, where Eisenkopf could not reach him.

Who acts: Eisenkopf, Peter · What happens: see, go, follow, have, clamber up, not reach · To what, where: Eisenkopf, heels, tall tree, Peter

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eisenkopf, Peter), 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	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seen	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Eisenkopf	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	6 seen	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 followed	cc
11	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 seen	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 closely	advmod
13	closely	closely	ADV	_	11 followed	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 heels	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heels	nmod:poss
16	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 followed	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 followed	advcl
20	barely	barely	ADV	_	21 time	advmod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 clamber	mark
23	clamber	clamber	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 clamber	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
26	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clamber	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reach	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 reach	advmod
30	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 reach	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 reach	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 reach	advmod
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tree	acl:relcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reach	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect · passive		Eisenkopf			however property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Eisenkopf not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	participle			Peter's heels		closely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=Location
4	have	past	Peter			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	clamber up	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	a tall tree				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
6	not reach	could	Eisenkopf	Peter				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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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