The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 35

He came down on his feet quite unhurt, but the little black dog heard the dump, and rushed out of its kennel at once.

Who acts: Niels, little black dog · What happens: come down, hear, rush out · To what, where: feet, dump, kennel

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, little black dog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 unhurt	advmod
8	unhurt	unhurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feet	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dump	det
17	dump	dump	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rushed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rushed	cc
20	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 kennel	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 kennel	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kennel	nmod:poss
24	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rushed	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 rushed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	Niels		Niels's feet	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location
2	hear	past	the little black dog	the dump			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dump=Stimulus
3	rush out	past		dog's kennel			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent kennel=Theme at once=Trajectory

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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