The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 133

After the moon rose he could see them occasionally, and when a big stag came quite close to him he got hold of Niels’ gun and shot it.

Who acts: Rasmus, big stag · What happens: rise, see, come, get, shoot, hold · To what, where: deer, hold, gun

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus, big stag), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 moon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rose	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 got	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 got	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stag	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stag	amod
15	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 got	advcl
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 close	advmod
18	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 close	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	nsubj
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	parataxis
23	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 gun	case
25	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 gun	nmod:poss
26	’	's	PART	_	25 Niels	case
27	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shot	cc
29	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 got	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shot	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past			after the moon		tree rules
2	see	could	Rasmus	deer		occasionally property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	come	past	a big stag			close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	past	Rasmus	hold of Niels's gun			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
5	shoot	past	Rasmus not said here	hold			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	hold			Niels's gun			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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