The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 70

Well, if he must, he must, he said to himself, and began to run as fast as he could after the old crone, who by this time could scarcely be seen, even in the moonlight.

Who acts: prisoner · What happens: say, begin, run, see · To what, where: prisoner, old crone, moonlight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 must	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 must	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Well	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 must	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Well	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 run	mark
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 fast	advmod
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 run	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 could	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 could	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fast	advcl
24	after	after	ADP	_	27 crone	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crone	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 crone	amod
27	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 seen	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 seen	nsubj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 time	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seen	obl
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 seen	aux
34	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	36 seen	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 seen	aux:pass
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 crone	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 moonlight	punct
38	even	even	ADV	_	41 moonlight	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 moonlight	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 moonlight	det
41	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seen	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	prisoner		prisoner				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	begin	past	prisoner not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	run	to-infinitive	prisoner not said here				after the old crone	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	could · passive		the old crone		the moonlight	time	scarcely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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