The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 41

Swinging himself down, he flew home to the hut, crying breathlessly, ‘Mother, mother, the farmers are close by with the wolf.

Who acts: Antoine, farmers · What happens: swing down, fly, cry, be · To what, where: Antoine, hut

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Antoine, farmers), 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	Swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 flew	advcl
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Swinging	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Swinging	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Swinging	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 flew	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 hut	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hut	det
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crying	punct
12	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 flew	conj
13	breathlessly	breathlessly	ADV	_	12 crying	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Mother	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Mother	punct
16	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crying	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Mother	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 close	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 farmers	det
21	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 close	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 close	cop
23	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Mother	parataxis
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 wolf	case
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 wolf	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wolf	det
27	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 close	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swing down	gerund	Antoine not said here	Antoine			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	fly	past	Antoine		the hut	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination
3	cry speech: express	gerund	Antoine not said here			breathlessly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the farmers			by the wolf; close property	tree rules

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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