The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 19

Their father and mother, seeing them busy at their work, got away from them insensibly, and ran away from them all at once, along a by-way through the winding bushes.

Who acts: father, pockets · What happens: see, get away, run away, work · To what, where: pockets

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 (father, pockets), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seeing	punct
6	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 father	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seeing	obj
8	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seeing	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 work	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 work	nmod:poss
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 busy	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	obl
17	insensibly	insensibly	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	parataxis
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 ran	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ran	obl
24	all	all	ADV	_	26 once	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 ran	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
28	along	along	ADP	_	32 way	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 way	det
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 by	punct
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	parataxis
33	through	through	ADP	_	36 bushes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bushes	det
35	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bushes	compound
36	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 way	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	pockets's father and mother not said here	pockets = pocket	busy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	get away	past	pockets's father and mother		from pockets = pocket; away, insensibly property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from they=Source
3	run away	past			from pockets = pocket; away, once property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory
4	work		pockets = pocket			nom work «act intransitive»: 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 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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