The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 24

She quickly ran down the nearest path, hoping to escape them in the darkness of the trees, but in an instant she heard their footsteps behind her.

Who acts: Tephany · What happens: run down, hope, escape, hear · To what, where: nearest path, women, darkness, footsteps, instant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 path	det
6	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 path	amod
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hoping	punct
9	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 escape	mark
11	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hoping	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 escape	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 darkness	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 darkness	det
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 escape	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 darkness	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 instant	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 instant	det
23	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 footsteps	nmod:poss
27	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 heard	obj
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run down	past	Tephany	the nearest path		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory
2	hope	gerund	Tephany not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tephany not said here	women = woman	the darkness of the trees		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial_Location
4	hear	past	Tephany	women's footsteps	a instant	behind girl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=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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