The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 129

With one bound he caught up his mantle, and rushed headlong down the path he had come, fearing at each step to feel a hand laid on his shoulder.

Who acts: moon · What happens: catch up, rush, come, fear, feel, lay · To what, where: mantle, path, hand, shoulder

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 bound	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bound	nummod
3	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 caught	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mantle	nmod:poss
8	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rushed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rushed	cc
11	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
12	headlong	headlong	ADV	_	11 rushed	advmod
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 path	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 path	det
15	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rushed	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 path	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fearing	punct
20	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 rushed	advcl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 step	case
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 step	det
23	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fearing	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 feel	mark
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fearing	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hand	det
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feel	obj
28	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hand	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 shoulder	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 shoulder	nmod:poss
31	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch up	past	moon	moon's mantle		with one bound	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme
2	rush	past	moon not said here		the path	headlong property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down path=Trajectory
3	come	past · perfect	moon	the path not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=Theme
4	fear	gerund	moon not said here			at each step	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	feel	to-infinitive	moon not said here	a hand			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
6	lay	participle		a hand not said here	moon's shoulder		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shoulder=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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