The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 67

He ran over sticks, stones and ditches; he lost drum-sticks, sabre, bow, and air-pistol, and in his terrible hurry he tripped over a tuft of grass.

Who acts: Walter · What happens: run, lose, trip, hurry · To what, where: sticks, drum sticks, terrible hurry

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 sticks	case
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stones	punct
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sticks	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ditches	cc
8	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sticks	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
12	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sticks	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 drum	punct
14	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lost	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sabre	punct
16	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sticks	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bow	punct
18	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sticks	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pistol	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pistol	cc
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pistol	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 air	punct
23	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tripped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tripped	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 hurry	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hurry	nmod:poss
28	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hurry	amod
29	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tripped	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tripped	nsubj
31	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 tuft	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tuft	det
34	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tripped	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 grass	case
36	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tuft	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	Walter		sticks and stones and ditches		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stick=Trajectory
2	lose	past	Walter	drum sticks and sabre and bow		air pistol obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Eventuality
3	trip	past	Walter		Walter's terrible hurry	over a tuft of grass	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory
4	hurry		Walter				nom hurry «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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