The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 40

‘Why, it must have got its feet loose, and have strayed after all,’ thought the man; and he put the kid on the grass and hurried off in the direction of the bleating.

Who acts: kid, man · What happens: get, stray, think, put, hurry off · To what, where: man, kid, grass, direction

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kid, man), 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	_	7 got	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loose	nsubj
10	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strayed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strayed	cc
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 strayed	aux
14	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 got	conj
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 thought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 strayed	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thought	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	nsubj
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 kid	det
27	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 grass	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 grass	det
30	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hurried	cc
32	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 put	conj
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 hurried	compound:prt
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 direction	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 direction	det
36	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hurried	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 bleating	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bleating	det
39	bleating	bleating	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 direction	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	get	must · perfect	kid				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stray	present · perfect	kid not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	kid not said here	the man		after all	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme
4	put	past	man	the kid	the grass		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme on grass=Destination
5	hurry off	participle	man not said here		the direction of the bleating		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory

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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