The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 34

The young man gave chase at once, and pursued it over hill and dale, till at last the hare took refuge in a mill which was standing by the side of a river.

Who acts: young man, hare, mill · What happens: give, pursue, take, stand · To what, where: chase, hill, refuge, mill

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, hare, mill), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pursued	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pursued	cc
10	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pursued	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 hill	case
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pursued	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dale	cc
15	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hill	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 last	case
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pursued	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hare	det
21	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 last	acl:relcl
23	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 mill	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mill	det
26	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 standing	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 standing	aux
29	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 mill	acl:relcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 side	det
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 standing	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 river	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 river	det
35	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 side	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the young man	chase			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent chase=Theme at once=Asset
2	pursue	past		chase	hill and dale		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme over hill=Trajectory
3	take	past	the hare	refuge	a mill		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in mill=Location
4	stand	past · progressive	a mill			by the side of a river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=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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