The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 21

The chase continued for several days and nights; several times the nyamatsanes almost reached him, and each time he was saved by his little pebble.

Who acts: chase, little pebble · What happens: continue, reach, save · To what, where: chase, time

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 (chase, little pebble), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chase	det
2	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continued	nsubj
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 continued	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nights	cc
8	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 days	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 reached	punct
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reached	obl:unmarked
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nyamatsanes	det
13	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 times	conj
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 reached	advmod
15	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reached	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saved	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saved	cc
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saved	nsubj:pass
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saved	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saved	aux:pass
23	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 reached	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 pebble	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pebble	nmod:poss
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pebble	amod
27	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saved	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the chase		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	the chase not said here	chase	time	almost property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	save	past · passive	chase's little pebble	each time			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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