The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 19

No sooner had the nyamatsanes tumbled off to sleep than the man stole softly down and fled away as fast as his legs would carry him, and by the time his enemies were awake he was a very long way off.

Who acts: nyamatsanes, man, legs, enemies · What happens: tumble off, sleep, steal, flee away, carry, be · To what, where: man, long way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nyamatsanes, man, legs, enemies), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 tumbled	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tumbled	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nyamatsanes	det
5	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tumbled	nsubj
6	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 tumbled	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tumbled	xcomp
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 stole	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stole	nsubj
13	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sleep	advcl
14	softly	softly	ADV	_	15 down	advmod
15	down	down	ADV	_	13 stole	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fled	cc
17	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stole	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 fled	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 fast	advmod
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 fled	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 carry	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 legs	nmod:poss
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carry	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 carry	aux
25	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fast	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carry	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 awake	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 awake	cc
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 time	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 awake	obl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 enemies	nmod:poss
33	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 awake	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 awake	cop
35	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tumbled	parataxis
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 way	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 way	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 way	det
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 long	advmod
40	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 way	amod
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 awake	parataxis
42	off	off	ADV	_	41 way	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tumble off	past	the nyamatsanes			soon property	tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the nyamatsanes not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	steal	past	the man			down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	flee away	past	the man not said here			away, fast property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	would	man's legs	man			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is	past	man's enemies		time	awake property	tree rules
7	is a	past	man	a long way		off property	tree rules

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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