The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 120

His heavy wooden shoes clattered as he ran along the road, and he made such haste that the stars were only just beginning to come out when he reached the cave of the Holy Man.

Who acts: heavy wooden shoes, cock, stars · What happens: clatter, run, make, begin, come out, reach · To what, where: road, such haste, cave

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy wooden shoes, cock, stars), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoes	nmod:poss
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoes	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoes	amod
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ran	nsubj
5	clattered	clatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ran	advcl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 ran	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ran	conj
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 haste	amod
17	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 beginning	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stars	det
20	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 beginning	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beginning	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 beginning	advmod
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 beginning	advmod
24	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 made	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 beginning	xcomp
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 reached	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reached	nsubj
30	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cave	det
32	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reached	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 Man	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Man	det
35	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	36 Man	compound
36	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 cave	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clatter	participle	cock's heavy wooden shoes not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	cock's heavy wooden shoes		the road		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
3	make	past	cock	such haste			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
4	begin	past · progressive	the stars				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	come out	to-infinitive	the stars not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	reach	past	cock	the cave of the Holy Man			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=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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