The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 55

He knew them to be his wife's brothers, one a dragoon, the other a musqueteer; so that he ran away immediately to save himself; but the two brothers pursued so close, that they overtook him before he could get to the steps of the porch, when they ran their swords thro' his body and left him dead.

Who acts: gate, two brothers, brothers · What happens: know, be, run away, save, pursue, overtake · To what, where: horsemen, brothers, gate, swords thro, porch

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, two brothers, brothers), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	9 brothers	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 brothers	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brothers	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 wife	case
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dragoon	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 dragoon	nummod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dragoon	det
13	dragoon	dragoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brothers	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 musqueteer	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 musqueteer	amod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 musqueteer	det
18	musqueteer	musqueteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dragoon	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 ran	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 ran	advmod
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 ran	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 save	mark
27	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ran	advcl
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 save	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 pursued	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 pursued	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 brothers	det
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 brothers	nummod
33	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 pursued	nsubj
34	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 close	advmod
36	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pursued	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 overtook	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 overtook	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 overtook	nsubj
40	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pursued	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 overtook	obj
42	before	before	SCONJ	_	45 get	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 get	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 get	aux
45	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 overtook	advcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 steps	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 steps	det
48	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 get	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 porch	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 porch	det
51	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 steps	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ran	punct
53	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 ran	advmod
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 ran	nsubj
55	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pursued	conj
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 thro	nmod:poss
57	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 thro	compound
58	thro	thro	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ran	obj
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	58 thro	punct
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 body	nmod:poss
61	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ran	obj
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 left	cc
63	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 ran	conj
64	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 left	obj
65	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 left	xcomp
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	gate	horsemen = horseman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	is a	to-infinitive		gate's wife's brothers		tree rules
3	run away	past	gate		away, immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	save	to-infinitive	gate not said here	gate		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	pursue	past	the two brothers		close property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	overtake	past	brothers = brother	gate		tree rules
7	get	could	gate		to the steps of the porch result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to step=Result
8	run	past	brothers = brother	horsemen's swords thro		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thro=Beneficiary body=Product
9	leave	past	brothers = brother not said here	gate	dead property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	step			the porch		nom step «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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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