The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 51

He was so excited that he hardly slept all night, and at the very first streak of dawn he ran as fast as ever he could down to the river.

Who acts: Hare · What happens: be, sleep, run · To what, where: first streak

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare), 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	4 excited	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 excited	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 excited	advmod
4	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 slept	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 slept	advmod
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 excited	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slept	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	17 streak	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 streak	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 first	advmod
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 streak	amod
17	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 dawn	case
19	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 streak	nmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 excited	parataxis
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 fast	advmod
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 ran	advmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 ever	case
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 fast	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ran	advcl
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 could	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 river	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 river	det
31	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 down	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 excited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hare			excited property	tree rules
2	sleep	past	Hare		night	hardly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	past	Hare	the first streak of dawn		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at streak=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 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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