The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 58

This went on all day, but as evening came on the huntsmen had gradually encircled the Roe, and one of them wounded it slightly in the foot, so that it limped and ran off slowly.

Who acts: This, huntsmen, one, collar · What happens: go, come, encircle, wound, limp, run off · To what, where: huntsmen, Roe, collar, foot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, huntsmen, one, collar), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 evening	case
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 huntsmen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 huntsmen	det
13	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 encircled	aux
15	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	16 encircled	advmod
16	encircled	encircle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 huntsmen	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Roe	det
18	Roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 encircled	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wounded	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wounded	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 wounded	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wounded	obj
26	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	24 wounded	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 foot	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 foot	det
29	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wounded	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 limped	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 limped	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 limped	nsubj
34	limped	limp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wounded	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ran	cc
36	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 limped	conj
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 ran	compound:prt
38	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	36 ran	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	This			day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	This not said here		the huntsmen	evening		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on huntsman=Location
3	encircle	past · perfect	the huntsmen not said here	the Roe			gradually property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme roe=Co-Theme
4	wound	past	one of huntsmen	collar	the foot		slightly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
5	limp	past	collar					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run off	past	collar not said here				slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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