The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 90

The boy would not step aside, and the man was determined not to do so either, so they ran against one another with a bump.

Who acts: boy, man · What happens: not step, be, not do, run

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, man), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 step	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 step	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 step	advmod
5	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	5 step	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 determined	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 determined	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 determined	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 determined	cop
12	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 step	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 determined	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 do	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 ran	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 step	conj
22	against	against	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 ran	obl
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 one	fixed
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 bump	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bump	det
27	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 step	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not step	would	the boy	aside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the man	determined property	tree rules
3	not do	to-infinitive	the man not said here	either property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run	past	boy	against one; with a bump	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against one=Trajectory

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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