The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 34

In a minute he knew he had been tricked, and flinging the bag to the ground in a rage, he ran after the fox as fast as his snow-shoes would carry him.

Who acts: harm, snow shoes · What happens: know, trick, fling, run, carry · To what, where: harm, bag, rage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, snow shoes), 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 minute	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tricked	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tricked	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 tricked	aux:pass
9	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 knew	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flinging	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flinging	cc
12	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tricked	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bag	det
14	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flinging	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flinging	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 rage	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rage	det
20	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flinging	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	conj
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 fox	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fox	det
26	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 fast	advmod
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 ran	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 carry	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shoes	nmod:poss
31	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shoes	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 snow	punct
33	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 carry	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 carry	aux
35	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fast	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carry	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	harm			minute		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	trick	past · perfect · passive		harm				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	fling	gerund		the bag	a rage		to the ground	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to ground=Destination
4	run	past	harm			after the fox	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	would	harm's snow shoes	harm				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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