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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 22

Between his fright and his hurry he was almost dead of exhaustion when he reached his own village, where the nyamatsanes could not follow him, because of their enemies the dogs, which swarmed over all the roads.

Who acts: chase, nyamatsanes, enemies · What happens: be, reach, not follow, swarm, fright, hurry · To what, where: own village, chase, roads

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, nyamatsanes, 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

casenmod:possoblccnmod:possconjnsubjcopadvmodcaseoblmarknsubjadvclnmod:possamodobjpunctadvmoddetnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclobjpunctcasefixednmod:possobldetconjpunctnsubjconjcasedet:predetdetoblpunctrootBetweenADPhisPRONfrightNOUNandCCONJhisPRONhurryNOUNhePRONwasAUXalmostADVdeadADJofADPexhaustionNOUNwhenSCONJhePRONreachedVERBhisPRONownADJvillageNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVtheDETnyamatsanesNOUNcouldAUXnotPARTfollowVERBhimPRON,PUNCTbecauseADPofADPtheirPRONenemiesNOUNtheDETdogsNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONswarmedVERBoverADPallDETtheDETroadsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BetweenbetweenADP_3 frightcase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 frightnmod:poss
3frightfrightNOUNNumber=Sing10 deadobl
4andandCCONJ_6 hurrycc
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 hurrynmod:poss
6hurryhurryNOUNNumber=Sing3 frightconj
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 deadnsubj
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 deadcop
9almostalmostADV_10 deadadvmod
10deaddeadADJDegree=Posrootroot
11ofofADP_12 exhaustioncase
12exhaustionexhaustionNOUNNumber=Sing10 deadobl
13whenwhenSCONJ_15 reachedmark
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 reachednsubj
15reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 deadadvcl
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 villagenmod:poss
17ownownADJDegree=Pos18 villageamod
18villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing15 reachedobj
19,,PUNCT_25 followpunct
20wherewhereADVPronType=Rel25 followadvmod
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 nyamatsanesdet
22nyamatsanesnyamatsaneNOUNNumber=Plur25 follownsubj
23couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 followaux
24notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 followadvmod
25followfollowVERBVerbForm=Inf18 villageacl:relcl
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 followobj
27,,PUNCT_31 enemiespunct
28becausebecauseADPExtPos=ADP31 enemiescase
29ofofADP_28 becausefixed
30theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 enemiesnmod:poss
31enemiesenemyNOUNNumber=Plur25 followobl
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 dogsdet
33dogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur31 enemiesconj
34,,PUNCT_36 swarmedpunct
35whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel36 swarmednsubj
36swarmedswarmVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 enemiesconj
37overoverADP_40 roadscase
38allallDETPronType=Tot40 roadsdet:predet
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 roadsdet
40roadsroadNOUNNumber=Plur36 swarmedobl
41..PUNCT_10 deadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastchasebetween chase's fright and chase's hurry; of exhaustion; almost, dead propertytree rules
2reachpastchasechase's own villagevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme
3not followcouldthe nyamatsaneschasebecause nyamatsanes's enemies and the dogsvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4swarmpastnyamatsanes's enemies and the dogsall roadsvn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over road=Location
5frightchasenom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6hurrychasenom hurry «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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