The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 117

He went out, and, having run over a vast deal of ground, both on this side and that, he came at last into the very road where the poor children were, and not above a hundred paces from their father’s house.

Who acts: ogre, poor children · What happens: go out, have, come, be, deal · To what, where: run, vast deal, last, house, ground

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, poor children), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 having	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 having	cc
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 having	punct
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
8	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 deal	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 deal	det
11	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deal	amod
12	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 ground	case
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deal	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 side	punct
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 side	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deal	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 that	cc
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 deal	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 came	obl
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 road	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 road	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 road	advmod
30	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 house	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 children	det
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 children	amod
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 house	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 house	cop
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 paces	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 paces	cc
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 hundred	advmod
39	above	above	ADP	_	41 hundred	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 hundred	det
41	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 paces	nummod
42	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 house	nsubj
43	from	from	ADP	_	47 house	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 father	nmod:poss
45	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 house	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 father	case
47	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 road	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	ogre				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund	ogre not said here	run	a vast deal of ground and this side		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Patient
3	come	past	ogre		last	into the road	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into road=Initial_Location
4	is	past	the poor children		paces's father's house		tree rules
5	deal			ground			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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