The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 91

Round and round the room it ran, round and round they both ran after it, knocking down chairs and vases in their efforts to catch the mouse and put it back in the tureen.

Who acts: you, mouse, room · What happens: round, run, knock down, catch, put back · To what, where: room, chairs, efforts, mouse, tureen

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mouse, room), 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	Round	round	ADV	_	3 round	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 round	cc
3	round	round	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 round	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 room	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 round	punct
9	round	round	ADV	_	3 round	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
11	round	round	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	nsubj
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 round	conj
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knocking	punct
18	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 ran	advcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 knocking	compound:prt
20	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 knocking	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 vases	cc
22	vases	vas	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 chairs	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 efforts	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 efforts	nmod:poss
25	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 chairs	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 catch	mark
27	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knocking	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mouse	det
29	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 catch	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 catch	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	31 put	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 tureen	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tureen	det
36	tureen	tureen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 round	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	round	imperative	you not said here	the room			round property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	run	past	mouse	the room not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location room=Theme
3	run	past	room			after mouse	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	knock down	gerund	room not said here	chairs and vases	room's efforts			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent chair=Theme in effort=Destination
5	catch	to-infinitive	room not said here	the mouse				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
6	put back	infinitive	room not said here	mouse	the tureen			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in tureen=Destination

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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