The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 131

This was enough; he ran along the road harder than ever, and never paused till he was save in his own room.

Who acts: moon · What happens: be, not pause, save · To what, where: moon, own room

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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	cop
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl
10	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ran	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 ever	case
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 harder	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 paused	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 paused	cc
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 paused	advmod
16	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 save	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 save	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 save	aux:pass
20	save	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 paused	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 room	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 room	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 room	amod
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 save	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	moon			along the road; hard, run property	tree rules
2	not pause	past	moon not said here				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	save	past · passive		moon	moon's own room		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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