The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 35

But directly they caught sight of the man they turned and fled in the other direction, and picking up the goods they had brought with them scampered as fast as they could down to the shore.

Who acts: people · What happens: catch, turn, flee, pick up, bring, scamper · To what, where: sight, man, other direction, goods, people

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 caught	cc
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	4 caught	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sight	nmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fled	cc
12	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 direction	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 direction	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 direction	amod
16	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brought	cc
19	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 brought	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 picking	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 goods	det
22	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 picking	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 brought	aux
25	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 caught	parataxis
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obl
28	scampered	scamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 brought	xcomp
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 fast	advmod
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 scampered	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 could	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 could	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fast	advcl
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 could	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 shore	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shore	det
37	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 down	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	people	sight of the man		directly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	turn	past	people	the man not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme man=Result
3	flee	past	people not said here		the other direction		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pick up	gerund		the goods			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Topic
5	bring	past · perfect · passive		people		with men = man	tree rules
6	scamper	participle				fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sight			the man			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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