The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 39

One fat officer alone could not keep up on foot with that mad rush, and as Moti came galloping up he flung himself on the ground in abject fear.

Who acts: One fat officer, Moti · What happens: not keep up, come, gallop up, fling · To what, where: foot, Moti, ground

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One fat officer, Moti), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 officer	nummod
2	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	compound
3	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 officer	advmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 keep	advmod
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 keep	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 foot	case
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 rush	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 rush	det
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rush	amod
14	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flung	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flung	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flung	advcl
20	galloping	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 came	xcomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 galloping	compound:prt
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flung	nsubj
23	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	parataxis
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 flung	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flung	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 fear	case
29	abject	abject	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fear	amod
30	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flung	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not keep up	could	One fat officer		foot	with that mad rush	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Moti				tree rules
3	gallop up	gerund	Moti not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fling	past	Moti	Moti	the ground	in abject fear	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination

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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