The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 89

Esben at once put it into his sack and hurried off before the witch should catch sight of him; but the next moment she came running, and shouted after him, ‘Hey! is that you, Esben?’

Who acts: Esben, witch, next moment · What happens: put, hurry off, catch, come, run, shout · To what, where: boar, sack, sight, Sir

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, witch, next moment), 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	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 put	obl
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 sack	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sack	nmod:poss
8	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hurried	cc
10	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 put	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 hurried	compound:prt
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 catch	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 witch	det
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 catch	aux
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	advcl
17	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sight	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moment	det
23	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moment	amod
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
27	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 came	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shouted	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shouted	cc
30	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	conj
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shouted	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Hey	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 Hey	punct
35	Hey	hey	INTJ	_	30 shouted	discourse
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 Hey	punct
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 you	cop
38	that	that	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 put	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Esben	punct
41	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	infinitive	Esben	boar	Sir's sack		Esben obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Destination
2	hurry off	participle	Esben not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	should	the witch	sight of Sir				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
4	come	past	the next moment					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	gerund	the next moment not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shout speech: express	past	the next moment not said here			after Sir		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present					that you	tree rules
8	sight			Sir				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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