The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 83

‘Then stop and wait a little,’ said Hans; but the man was in a hurry, and would not stop, so Hans ran after him and caught the horse by the tail.

Who acts: you, man, Hans · What happens: stop, wait, say, be, not stop, run · To what, where: little, Hans, hurry, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, Hans), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wait	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
11	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hurry	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 hurry	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hurry	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hurry	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hurry	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hurry	det
19	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stop	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stop	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stop	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 stop	advmod
24	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 hurry	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 ran	advmod
27	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stop	parataxis
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ran	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 caught	cc
32	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ran	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 horse	det
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 caught	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 tail	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tail	det
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 caught	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here	a little				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	you not said here	Hans				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent han=Topic
4	is	past	the man		a hurry			tree rules
5	not stop	would						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	run	past	Hans			after Purgatory		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	catch	past	Hans not said here	the horse			by the tail	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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