The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 29

If she chased them in the meadow they fled into the wood, and if she pursued them into the wood they dodged round trees and behind sprigs of moss, and with peals of elfin laughter scampered back again into the meadow.

Who acts: Graciosa, games, elfin laughter · What happens: chase, flee, pursue, dodge, scamper back, peal · To what, where: games, meadow, wood, round trees, peals

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, games, elfin laughter), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 chased	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	nsubj
3	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 meadow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meadow	det
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fled	nsubj
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meadow	acl:relcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pursued	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pursued	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 pursued	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pursued	nsubj
17	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chased	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pursued	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 wood	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pursued	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dodged	nsubj
23	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wood	acl:relcl
24	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 trees	amod
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dodged	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sprigs	cc
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	28 sprigs	case
28	sprigs	sprig	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 trees	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 moss	case
30	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sprigs	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 peals	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 peals	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 peals	case
34	peals	peal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pursued	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 laughter	case
36	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 laughter	compound
37	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 peals	nmod
38	scampered	scamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 peals	acl
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 scampered	advmod
40	again	again	ADV	_	38 scampered	advmod
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 meadow	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 meadow	det
43	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 scampered	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	chase	past	Graciosa	games = game	the meadow		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in meadow=Trajectory
2	flee	past	games = game	the meadow not said here	the wood		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme meadow=Initial_Location
3	pursue a condition, not said to happen	past	Graciosa	games = game	the wood		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into wood=Trajectory
4	dodge	past	games = game	round trees and sprigs of moss			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Location
5	scamper back	participle		peals of elfin laughter not said here	the meadow	again	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into meadow=Destination
6	peal		elfin laughter				nom peal «event intransitive»: of=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 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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