The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 80

So he ran with all his might, and shouted after them, ‘Hey! wait a little; let me get a hold of him!’

Who acts: carpenter, me · What happens: run, shout, wait, let, get, hold · To what, where: little, me, hold, carpenter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpenter, me), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 might	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 might	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 might	nmod:poss
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shouted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shouted	cc
10	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shouted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wait	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 wait	punct
15	Hey	hey	INTJ	_	17 wait	discourse
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Hey	punct
17	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 little	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wait	obl:unmarked
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 wait	parataxis
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hold	det
25	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hold	nmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	run	past	carpenter			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	carpenter not said here		after neighbours = neighbour	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	present		a little		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
5	get	infinitive	me not said here	a hold of carpenter		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
6	hold			carpenter		nom hold «act 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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