The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 37

He caught him by the collar, tucked him under his arm and set off with him to Taram-taq.

Who acts: prince · What happens: catch, tuck, set off · To what, where: man, prince, arm, Taram taq

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 collar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 collar	det
6	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tucked	punct
8	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tucked	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 arm	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arm	nmod:poss
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tucked	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 set	cc
14	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tucked	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 taq	case
19	Taram	Taram	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 taq	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Taram	punct
21	taq	taq	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	prince	man		by the collar	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	tuck	past		prince	prince's arm		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme under arm=Trajectory
3	set off	infinitive			Taram taq	with prince	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to taq=Initial_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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