The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 62

Yes, the brave Walter who alone could manage four, threw his drum far away, took to his heels and ran, and ran as fast as he could back to the mill.

Who acts: brave Walter · What happens: manage, throw, take, run · To what, where: four, drum

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave Walter), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 manage	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Walter	det
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Walter	amod
5	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 manage	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 Walter	nmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 who	advmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	aux
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 manage	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 drum	nmod:poss
14	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	12 threw	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 heels	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heels	nmod:poss
21	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 took	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ran	cc
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 fast	advmod
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 ran	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 could	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fast	advcl
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 could	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 mill	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mill	det
35	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 back	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	manage	could	the brave Walter	four		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme
2	throw	past		Walter's drum	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme
3	take	past			to Walter's heels result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result
4	run	past				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	past			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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