The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 122

So the raging beast was caught, for it was far too heavy and unwieldy to spring out of the window.

Who acts: beast · What happens: rage, catch, be, spring out · To what, where: raging beast, window

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 caught	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beast	det
3	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 beast	amod
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	aux:pass
6	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heavy	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 heavy	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heavy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heavy	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 heavy	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 caught	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 unwieldy	cc
15	unwieldy	unwieldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heavy	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 spring	mark
17	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 unwieldy	xcomp
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 window	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spring	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rage	gerund				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past · passive		the raging beast		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	beast		far, heavy property	tree rules
4	be		beast not said here			tree rules
5	spring out	to-infinitive	beast not said here	the window		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location window=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 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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