The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 80

As soon as she had turned the corner the Shifty Lad came out, and by running very fast through the wood he contrived to reach home before his mother, who found him stretched out comfortably before the fire.

Who acts: Crow, Shifty Lad, suddenness, mother · What happens: turn, come out, run, contrive, reach, find · To what, where: corner, wood, suddenness

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow, Shifty Lad, suddenness, mother), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 turned	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 turned	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lad	det
10	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Lad	amod
11	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	parataxis
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 contrived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 contrived	cc
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 running	mark
17	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 contrived	advcl
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 running	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 running	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 contrived	nsubj
24	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 reach	mark
26	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 contrived	xcomp
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 reach	advmod
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 mother	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reach	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 found	nsubj
33	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 mother	acl:relcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	obj
35	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 found	xcomp
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 stretched	compound:prt
37	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	35 stretched	advmod
38	before	before	ADP	_	40 fire	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stretched	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect	Crow	the corner			soon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme
2	come out	past	the Shifty Lad				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	run	gerund	suddenness not said here		the wood		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
4	contrive	past	suddenness					tree rules
5	reach	to-infinitive	suddenness not said here			before suddenness's mother	home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	find	past	suddenness's mother	suddenness				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
7	stretch out	participle	suddenness not said here			before the fire	comfortably property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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