The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 39

In another instant his dog dashed by in hot pursuit, and knocked heavily against his master’s legs.

Who acts: dog · What happens: dash, knock · To what, where: instant, legs

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dashed	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dog	nmod:poss
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dashed	nsubj
6	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 pursuit	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pursuit	case
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pursuit	amod
10	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dashed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knocked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knocked	cc
13	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dashed	conj
14	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	13 knocked	advmod
15	against	against	ADP	_	19 legs	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 master	nmod:poss
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 legs	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 master	case
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 knocked	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dash	participle	prince's dog			another instant		by hot pursuit	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Trajectory
2	knock	past	prince's dog not said here			prince's master's legs		heavily property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against leg=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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