The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 119

In an instant the wood-cutter was on his feet, and running to the court, where he paused dazzled by the glitter of the coins which lay around him.

Who acts: wood cutter, feet, glitter, coins · What happens: be, run, dazzle, lie · To what, where: feet, Cutter

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood cutter, feet, glitter, coins), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feet	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cutter	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cutter	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 wood	punct
7	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feet	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feet	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 running	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 running	cc
14	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 feet	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 court	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 court	det
17	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 running	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dazzled	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 dazzled	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dazzled	nsubj
21	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dazzled	aux:pass
22	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 court	acl:relcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 glitter	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 glitter	det
25	glitter	glitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dazzled	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 coins	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 coins	det
28	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 glitter	nmod
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lay	nsubj
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 coins	acl:relcl
31	around	around	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lay	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 feet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wood cutter		Cutter's feet	in a instant	tree rules
2	run	gerund	Cutter's feet not said here			to the court result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to court=Result
3	dazzle	past · passive	the glitter of the coins	Cutter			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	lie	past	the coins			around Cutter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around he=Location

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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