The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 8

He spoke loudly, and the Black Gallows Bird heard, and ran out of the loft, dragging the big leather hide after him which the Shifty Lad had sewed to his coat.

Who acts: Hallowe’en, Black Gallows, Shifty Lad · What happens: speak, hear, run, drag, sew · To what, where: loft, big leather hide · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hallowe’en, Black Gallows, Shifty Lad), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gallows	det
7	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Gallows	amod
8	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 heard	nsubj
9	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 loft	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 loft	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 loft	det
17	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dragging	punct
19	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ran	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hide	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hide	amod
22	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hide	compound
23	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dragging	obj
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hide	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 sewed	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Lad	det
28	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Lad	amod
29	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sewed	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sewed	aux
31	sewed	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 hide	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 coat	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 coat	nmod:poss
34	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sewed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Hallowe’en = hallowe'en				loudly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	the Black Gallows					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	run	past	Hallowe’en = hallowe'en not said here		the loft			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out loft=Trajectory
4	drag	gerund	Hallowe’en = hallowe'en not said here	the big leather hide		after Hallowe’en = hallowe'en		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme
5	sew	past · perfect	the Shifty Lad	the big leather hide			to Hallowe’en's coat	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent which=Patient to coat=Co-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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