The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 90

‘You thief!’ shrieked Moti, and ran up and, just as the tiger, in astonishment, dropped a bone--whack! came Moti’s staff on his head with such good will that the beast was half stunned and could hardly breathe or see.

Who acts: You, thief · What happens: thief, shriek, run up, drop, come, stun · To what, where: Moti, astonishment, bone, staff, head, beast

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, thief), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 thief	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thief	nsubj
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shrieked	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thief	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 thief	punct
6	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shrieked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shrieked	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tiger	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tiger	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 tiger	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 tiger	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tiger	det
17	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 astonishment	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 astonishment	case
20	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dropped	punct
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shrieked	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bone	det
24	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	obj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 whack	punct
26	whack	whack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bone	conj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dropped	conj
29	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 staff	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Moti	case
31	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	iobj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 head	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
35	with	with	SCONJ	_	38 will	mark
36	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 good	amod
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 will	amod
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 head	acl:relcl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 stunned	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 beast	det
41	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stunned	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 stunned	aux:pass
43	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	44 stunned	advmod
44	stunned	stun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 came	advcl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 breathe	cc
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 breathe	aux
47	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	48 breathe	advmod
48	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 stunned	conj
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 see	cc
50	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 breathe	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thief		You					tree rules
2	shriek	past	thief	Moti				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moti=Theme
3	run up	past	thief not said here			astonishment		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in astonishment=Trajectory
4	drop	past		a bone and whack				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
5	come	past			Moti's staff	Moti's head		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location staff=Theme
6	stun	past · passive		the beast			half property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
7	breathe	could					hardly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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