The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 88

When Walter beat his drum, Caro crept out, and when Walter ran away, Caro ran after him, as he so often does when Walter wants to romp and play.

Who acts: Walter, Caro · What happens: beat, creep out, run away, run, want, romp · To what, where: 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 (Walter, Caro), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 beat	advmod
2	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beat	nsubj
3	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crept	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 drum	nmod:poss
5	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beat	punct
7	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 crept	nsubj
8	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 crept	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 ran	advmod
13	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ran	advcl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
17	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ran	nsubj
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crept	conj
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ran	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wants	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 does	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 does	nsubj
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 does	advmod
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 does	advmod
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 wants	aux
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 wants	advmod
28	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 wants	nsubj
29	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ran	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 romp	mark
31	romp	romp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wants	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 play	cc
33	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 romp	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Walter	Walter's drum			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
2	creep out	past	Caro				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run away	past	Walter			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	past	Caro		after Walter		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	want	present · do-support	Walter				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	romp not said to happen	to-infinitive	Walter not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	play	infinitive	Walter not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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