The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 42

He snatched it from the case and thrust his foot into it, nearly weeping for joy when he found he could walk and run as easily as any beggar boy.

Who acts: king · What happens: snatch, weep, find, walk, run · To what, where: material, case · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 snatched	nsubj
2	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snatched	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 case	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snatched	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thrust	cc
8	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 case	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 foot	nmod:poss
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snatched	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snatched	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weeping	punct
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 weeping	advmod
15	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 snatched	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 joy	case
17	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weeping	obl
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 found	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 weeping	advcl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 walk	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 walk	aux
23	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 found	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 run	cc
25	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 walk	conj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 easily	advmod
27	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 run	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 boy	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 boy	det
30	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 boy	compound
31	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 run	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 snatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snatch	past	king	material	the case and thrust	into material	tree rules
2	weep	gerund	king not said here			for joy; nearly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	king				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	walk	could	king				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	infinitive	king not said here			as any beggar boy; easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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