The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 51

By chance in the afternoon a leopard appeared, and the weaver instantly ran home as fast as he could to get the stones which the farmer had shown him, to throw at the creature.

Who acts: leopard, weaver · What happens: appear, run, get, show, throw · To what, where: stones, farmer, creature

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leopard, weaver), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 chance	case
2	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appeared	obl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 afternoon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 afternoon	det
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chance	nmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leopard	det
7	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appeared	nsubj
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weaver	det
12	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
13	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 appeared	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 fast	advmod
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 ran	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 could	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fast	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ran	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stones	det
24	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 get	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 shown	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 farmer	det
27	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shown	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 shown	aux
29	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 stones	acl:relcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shown	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 throw	mark
33	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 get	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 creature	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 creature	det
36	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 throw	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a leopard			by chance in the afternoon	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location
2	run	past	the weaver			fast, home, instantly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	the weaver not said here	the stones			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus
4	show	past · perfect · passive		the farmer			tree rules
5	throw	to-infinitive	the weaver not said here		the creature		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at creature=Destination

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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