The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 9

‘He is stealing my hide!’ shouted the farmer, and they all darted after him; but he was too swift for them, and at last he managed to tear the hide from his coat, and then he flew like a hare till he reached his old hiding-place.

Who acts: Lad, stealing, Gallows · What happens: steal, shout, dart, be, manage, tear · To what, where: hide, farmer, last, old hiding place · 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 (Lad, stealing, Gallows), 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	_	4 stealing	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stealing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stealing	aux
4	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 shouted	csubj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hide	nmod:poss
6	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stealing	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 stealing	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 stealing	punct
9	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shouted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 darted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 darted	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 darted	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 darted	advmod
16	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shouted	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 darted	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 swift	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 swift	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 swift	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 swift	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 swift	advmod
24	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shouted	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 swift	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 managed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 managed	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 last	case
30	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 managed	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 managed	nsubj
32	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shouted	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 tear	mark
34	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 managed	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hide	det
36	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tear	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 coat	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 coat	nmod:poss
39	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tear	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 flew	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 flew	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 flew	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 flew	nsubj
44	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 managed	parataxis
45	like	like	ADP	_	47 hare	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 hare	det
47	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 flew	obl
48	till	till	SCONJ	_	50 reached	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 reached	nsubj
50	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 flew	advcl
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 place	nmod:poss
52	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 place	amod
53	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 place	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 hiding	punct
55	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 reached	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present · progressive	Lad	my hide				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hide=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	stealing	the farmer				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Topic
3	dart	past	Gallows			after Lad		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	Lad				for Gallows; swift property	tree rules
5	manage	past	Lad		last			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	tear	to-infinitive	Lad not said here	the hide			from Lad's coat	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hide=Patient from coat=Co-Patient
7	fly	past	Lad			then	like a hare	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	reach	past	Lad	Lad's old hiding place				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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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