The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 74

Going back to the flag which had been stuck into the sand to mark the starting place, he ran forward, with his head well thrown back, and cleared the boat with a mighty bound.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: go back, stick, mark, run, throw back, clear · To what, where: flag, sand, starting place, head, boat

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 ran	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Going	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 flag	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flag	det
5	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stuck	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stuck	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 stuck	aux:pass
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flag	acl:relcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 sand	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sand	det
12	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 mark	mark
14	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stuck	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 place	det
16	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 place	compound
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mark	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ran	nsubj
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	forward	forward	ADV	_	20 ran	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thrown	punct
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 thrown	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thrown	nsubj:pass
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 thrown	advmod
27	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 ran	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 thrown	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cleared	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cleared	cc
31	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ran	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boat	det
33	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cleared	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 bound	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bound	det
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bound	amod
37	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cleared	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	gerund	stranger not said here			to the flag result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to flag=Result
2	stick	past · perfect · passive		the flag	the sand		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into sand=Destination
3	mark	to-infinitive		the starting place			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Destination
4	run	past	stranger			forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	throw back	participle · passive		stranger's head		well property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	clear	past	stranger not said here	the boat		with a mighty bound	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Product with bound=Material

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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