The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 58

Then the youth sprang down from the tree, ran by a short cut and got before him, and once more hung himself up on a tree in the road before the man.

Who acts: youth · What happens: spring down, run, get, hang up · To what, where: tree, man

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 (youth), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sprang	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	nsubj
4	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 sprang	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 cut	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cut	det
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cut	amod
14	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	conj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hung	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hung	cc
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 hung	advmod
23	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 hung	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 hung	compound:prt
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 tree	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tree	det
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hung	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 road	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 road	det
31	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hung	obl
32	before	before	ADP	_	34 man	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hung	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring down	past	the youth		the tree	then	down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory
2	run	past	the youth not said here				by a short cut	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cut=Trajectory
3	get	past	the youth not said here			before man		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	hang up	past	the youth not said here	man	a tree	before the man	in the road	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on tree=Destination

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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