The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 95

At this they howled at him, and were about to lay hold of him and drag him off; but when they had got some raps from his walking-stick they let go again, howled still louder than before, and ran in to Old Eric, who was still in bed, after his adventure in the lake.

Who acts: compliments, walking stick, Old Eric, Hans · What happens: howl, be, lay, drag off, get, let · To what, where: hold, Hans, raps, walking stick, Old Eric, bed

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 (compliments, walking stick, Old Eric, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 howled	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 howled	nsubj
4	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 howled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 about	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 about	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 about	cop
10	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 howled	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lay	mark
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 about	xcomp
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hold	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drag	cc
17	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lay	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drag	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 drag	compound:prt
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 got	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 got	aux
25	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 howled	parataxis
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 raps	det
27	raps	rap	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 got	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	32 stick	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 stick	nmod:poss
30	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stick	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 walking	punct
32	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 raps	nmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 let	nsubj
34	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stick	acl:relcl
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	xcomp
36	again	again	ADV	_	35 go	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 howled	punct
38	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 howled	conj
39	still	still	ADV	_	40 louder	advmod
40	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 howled	xcomp
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 before	case
42	before	before	ADV	_	40 louder	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ran	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 ran	cc
45	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 howled	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	45 ran	compound:prt
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 Eric	case
48	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 Eric	amod
49	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 ran	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 bed	punct
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 bed	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 bed	cop
53	still	still	ADV	_	55 bed	advmod
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 bed	case
55	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 Eric	appos
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 adventure	punct
57	after	after	ADP	_	59 adventure	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 adventure	nmod:poss
59	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ran	obl
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 lake	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 lake	det
62	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 adventure	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 howled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	past	compliments = compliment					at Hans; at this	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at this=Stimulus
2	is	past	compliments = compliment not said here					about property	tree rules
3	lay	to-infinitive	compliments = compliment not said here	hold of Hans					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
4	drag off	infinitive	compliments = compliment not said here	Hans					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	get	past · perfect	compliments = compliment	some raps		Hans's walking stick			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rap=Theme from stick=Source
6	let	past	compliments = compliment	Hans's walking stick not said here					tree rules
7	go	infinitive	Hans's walking stick not said here				again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	howl	past	compliments = compliment not said here					loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	run in	past	compliments = compliment not said here		Old Eric		after Hans's adventure in the lake		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to eric=Result
10	is	past	Old Eric			bed	still		tree rules
11	hold			Hans					nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
12	adventure		Hans			the lake			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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