The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 114

While they were doing this the youth let one of the hares slip out of his bag, and off it set and began to run round the yard.

Who acts: hares, you, one, bag · What happens: do, let, slip out, set, begin, run · To what, where: this, bag

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hares, you, one, bag), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 doing	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 let	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 doing	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 slip	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hares	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hares	det
12	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 bag	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 bag	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bag	nmod:poss
17	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slip	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 set	cc
20	off	off	ADP	_	22 set	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 set	nsubj
22	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 set	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 run	mark
26	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 yard	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 yard	det
29	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 run	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	hares = hare	this		tree rules
2	let	imperative	you not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	slip out	present	one of the hares	man's bag		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bag=Patient
4	set	past	bag			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	begin	past	bag not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	run	to-infinitive	bag not said here		round the yard	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round yard=Trajectory

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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